Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.
An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.
Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.
Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [. . . ] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him on the job. What if he'd been injured in the line of duty and didn't come by as promised because he was incapacitated in some way? Maybe he hadn't called to apologize or to explain his absence because he physically couldn't. Right. And maybe she had checked her brain into her panties from the second she first laid eyes on the man.
Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.
The only music minister to whom the Lord will say, 'Well done, thy good and faithful servant,' is the one whose life proves what their lyrics are saying, and to whom music is the least important part of their life. Glorifying the only worthy One has to be a minister's most important goal!
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.