You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.
I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.
I've learned so much from my failures that I'm thinking of having some more.
The best thing about being too late is that there's no more need to hurry.
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
My social life is much better, since I stopped spending it with other people.
I feel much better, now that I've given up hope.
I've never felt like this before, with anyone. It's against the rules of surviving.
The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i. e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.
Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.