Lady love, your love is peaceful like the summers breeze.
The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.
When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U. S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?
There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.
The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U. S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused.
When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable. "
Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making record profits, why not? I don't get it.
I was consumed by my love for Chris Colfer, and I just couldn't hold it in any longer.
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. . . They are for nothing but to inspire.
I walk into the studio and we're all so happy to see each other.