The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.
In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.
There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.
I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.
The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.
Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United States of America, which could very well be true, take an aspirin and comment on his neatly tied shoes. Almost anybody would rather be known for expert shoe-tying than for kicking the cat. " She always tells whiners how charming they are--bullies how brave--bad sports how good--sneaks how honest!
a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.
I'm not a mediator or a negotiator. I don't want to be one.
It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach.
You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. [. . . ] Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win. I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore.
When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.