Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
All women are princesses , it is our right.
I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us
It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?". . . "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.
The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.
If [Moroccans born in Holland] commit serious crimes - I believe we should strip them indeed of the Dutch nationality and send them back to Morocco as Morocco does.
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?
I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.