It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.
Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
Isn't it just heart-stopping and mind-numbing when you stop and realize that the Republican Party doesn't want to win?
The Law was given by Moses; the moral law, to discover the extent and abounding sin; the ceremonial law, to point out, by typical sacrifices and ablutions, the way in which forgiveness was to be sought and obtained. But grace, to relieve us from the condemnation of the one, and truth answerable to the types and shadows of the other, came by Jesus Christ.
The thing about 'Watchmen' that people should know is that when it came out there was absolutely nothing like it. Up until then, comics were about the same thing: a guy in tights fighting another guy in tights and saving the girl - that was it.
One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.