Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace]. 'Some of the time.
Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.
Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.
the lost women I need to know their names those women I would have walked with, jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom I would have joined After a hard game to chew the fat what would we have called each other laughing joking into our beer? where are my gangs, my teams, my mislaid sisters? all the women who could have known me, where in the world are their names?
So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God. In the eyes of those who do not know God, it is madness to trust Him, but when we pray in the Holy Spirit we begin to realize the resources of God, that He is our perfect heavenly Father, and we are His children.
I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.
The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.