The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.
I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love. . . You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that
The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.
I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.
To revive sorrow is cruel.
In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours. The trouble with your robust and full bodied faiths, however, is, that they begin to cut each others throats too soon, and for getting on in the world and establishing a modus vivendi these pestilential refinements and reasonablenesses and moderations have to creep in.
I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.