The trick is to steal big.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.
I think actually any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the mode where, "I've got to choose every good option. " They should just play the game. And they should get equal consequences or rewards for that, that are different from the extremes.
Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
Dad says that everyone invented baklava. ” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes. “Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.