The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.
A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor’s boots.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists’ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.
I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there’s a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn’t help him. She says, I don’t want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I’ve fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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