I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person. [p. 62]
... --an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]
Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities. [p. 38]
Sorting gets harder as time goes on--it requires a sort of ruthless decisiveness, while indecision results in endless dithering. Five moves, they say, equal a fire. But those who haven't moved may begin to need a fire. [p. 38]
I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.
We as Christians are called to battle. The problem is, we don’t fight about the right things and we do fight about the wrong things. We aren’t getting in the battle that we should and so we fight over petty, insignificant things. Why? Because we ...
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little...
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.
Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.
For in today’s generation of teenagers finding acceptance is hard, especially for those who dare to be different-then it’s impossible.
Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician
I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die. So the fearful mind that believes in incorporeal beings is not wro...
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.
[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
