I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.
Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.
Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?
Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.
I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently. "
As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole and then caught it and swung quickly around, part of her would keep going, and she would become two girls.
Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image.
If I don't have a schedule in front of me, I do enjoy sleeping. It's important for your body!
But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.
Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.