A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing
There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shadow of every neighborhood. We own little corner stores, live in run-down apartments that get too little...
The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.
Things should have been so different to the way they are now.
The problem is normal was'nt in my DNA. I was destined to be forever freakish.
Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.
Don’t start. I saw Marcie climb inside your Jeep.” “She needed a ride.” I adopted a hands-on-hips pose. “What kind of ride?” “Not that kind of ride,” he said slowly.
Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exists and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.
Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?
In a hyper materialist environment where everything is reduced to mere economic considerations, what we deem to be important is often trivial, a temporary fix for deeper and more profound yearnings. This has given rise to what some may describe as a ...
Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.
The true test is won when being together without saying a word is everything.
There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.
Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the Protestant ethic parents, as materialism corrupted the original aestheticism of the godly?
My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it’d created the only type of guy I could touch—a fantasy one.
I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.
Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves.
I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.
