It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.
Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.
If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.
I grew up in the 70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours every evening as a teenager waiting for the phone to ring and talking to my friends. Before the age of technology, it was also easier to just disappear from the face of the earth.
Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.
We all stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence. Only Carter was able to get anything out. "That," he told Robert exuberantly, "is how a bird in the hand gets up before the early worm. " "That doesn't make any sense," said Roger. Carter pointed at the scoreboard. "Neither does that, but there you have it.
The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.
The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?