Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.
In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.
You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.
I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
A lot of people are not meant to be together.
I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.
I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, to postpone action that it appears to demand at a given time. Who knows, asks Robert Browning, but the world may end tonight? True, but on available evidence most of us make ready to commute on the 8:30 next day.