I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.
Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.
Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.
Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.
Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.
And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.
Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each character. Sometimes you can lower your voice with excitement or get more intimate about it: you can lean forward and engage the children as a narrator or as a reader. It's particularly important that you find the voice that you want to use for each character, because then children can imagine that person as you're reading aloud. And of course, the illustrations help enormously.
I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.