Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.
These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.
She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?
Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.
There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.
Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn’t worked. And a lot of really smart, wealthy people know that. And they are saying, hey, we need to do more to make the contributions we should be making to rebuild the middle class.
The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.
Americas largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U. S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.
That's what I mean about Catholicism - your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you're a good Catholic. That's wrong. It's human nature to be sexual, so why would God want you to deny your human nature?