If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
What usually comes first is the contract.
A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
But the age of miracles hadn't passed.
Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky. . . Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.
I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.
When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.
What I'm fighting for now in my work. . . for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, "I will never do that again. "
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.