And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.
My life flies away like a dream: Why should I stay behind?
The one who does not stray away from herhis nature will live long.
Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good. . . There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.
I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
These other rappers getting bodied and carried away.
I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist. ' And then they'd walk away real quickly.
There's always been a need for horror fiction, though--ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature--and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That's one big horror story. And it's the most popular book on the planet.
You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.
There are some communities that feel you shouldn't give them the publicity, because it's just going to make people curious. There are communities who feel we need to fight them tooth and nail. What we have seen, though, is that ignoring them does not make them go away. If we sit back and let them have free reign, we lose members of our community.
And then she said nothing else, for Henry put his arms around her and kissed her. Kissed her in such a way that she no longer felt plain, or conscious of her hair or the ink spot on her dress or anything but Henry, whom she had always loved. Tears welled up and spilled down her cheeks, and when he drew away, he touched her wet face wonderingly. "Really," he said. "You love me, too, Lottie?
Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.
The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.
Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard.
Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.
If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
I find I enjoy myself most on those days when it's just me and a couple close friends away from it all. True human interaction in a day when we are all spread so thin.
The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.
If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.