Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.
I can't believe that the Russians really think they're more insecure because Estonia is in NATO. And we don't have forces poised in Estonia to attack Russia.
There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.
I have a guy friend who said to me, "Hey, you know it's strange, feminism is cool now. " I think now people understand that being a feminist means everyone should be equal. What really shocked me was being in America during the Republican primaries. I haven't been exposed to that kind of thinking. I was so shocked that that kind of thinking exists in a modern world, and in a first-world country.
They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.