I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?
Beautiful is dangerous.
(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)
That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!
You don’t just go to somebody and say, ‘I’m a better person because you’re in my head.
The Admiral's using us," he says to the kids around him. "Don't you see that?" Most of the kids just shrug, but Hayden's there, and he never misses an opportunity to add his peculiar wisdom to a situation. "I'd rather be used whole than in pieces," Hayden says.
I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.
A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.
You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.
The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason, but referred to the decision of war, having been decided against us, it is the part of wisdom to acquiesce in the result, and of candor to recognize the fact.