You have to have other things in your life apart from swimming to focus on. It's not going to be just swimming in my life.
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.
She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn’t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.
What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body is something special.
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.
I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two. . . But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.
I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.
Bush's life is that a fundamentally decent man presided over a moment when politics got meaner and rougher. '88 was the year of the handler, of bringing in political consultants who played very hard and very tough'.