L. S. Lowry Quotes
There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.
Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.
I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.
You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.
Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.
Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.
In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.
I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.
What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.
Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
How rude for the created to tell the Creator "I wasn't worth it. You didn't do a good job when you made me. I wasn't worth dying for." You don't get a choice! He's the one who gets to decide.
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.
I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.
They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.
Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?
Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.
Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.
You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.
