Day Quotes
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.
Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.
He was the kind of guy that made a woman want to rip his shirt open and watch the buttons scatter along with her inhibitions.
After eating the world's bread, we wake each morning to remember: We are still hungry. Seek a better loaf. Eat, and never die. Taste, savor, and be filled forever.
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.
The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
Don't eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that you will never fall over on your cat.
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.
If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished
"You’re different,” he said, touching my face. Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that.
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.
One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.
As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.
Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.
The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.
It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.
The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.
Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.
Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.