The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.
I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.
Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.
The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.
Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.
And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.
The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.
Unless there's a grassroots movement of some sort, with TV and the media in general in the hands of fewer and fewer people - the Murdochians, you know - all we hear is the one point of view. There has to be something communal.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
I always complain because I'm old now and everything hurts.
Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable ‘must’all life created by God exists in communal order and works toward community.