We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?
there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Every child has the capacity to be everything.
Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think. . . it's me".
Some pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.
Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.
Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the central concern of modern politics. Public judgment, in the words of Benjamin Barber, is a function of commonality that can be exercised only by citizens interacting with one another in the context of mutual deliberation and decision.