Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.
Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.
Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.
When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.
The ticket out of the Depression was an education, a college degree. It really didn't matter if you knew anything. You just had to have the degree. My dad, up until the last two years of his life, thought he had failed miserably with me 'cause I didn't go to college. I mean, you've seen postgame interviews with the star of the game and the players always talk about how proud his parents are because he's the first guy in his family ever to attend college. I'm the first in my family not to! I'm the first of my family not to have a degree. It's thrown everybody for a loop.