No one gets a free ride. Except maybe bus drivers.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
Just because Iran and Syria may recognize Assad's weaknesses doesn't necessarily mean that Assad recognizes his weaknesses.
A few minutes later, she was once again riding her own horse. Deciding to take the lead, she nudged the mare into a trot, and as she passed Brodick and Ramsey, she called out, "You used trickery. " "Yes, I did," he admitted. "Are you angry with me?" She laughed again. "I don't get angry. I get even. " Unbeknownst to her, she had just recited the Buchanan creed.
Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.
Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.