Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.
Every great work of art. . . is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.
She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but when Justine and Siobhan and Francesca use his body so shamelessly he doesn't feel the need to turn his head and press his mouth against their hair.