Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.
Skateboarding and that whole industry just became so far away. I was trying to find that ultimate place, that place of contentment but I couldn't. I didn't find it in pushing the dark things of life to the limit either.
What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and 150,000 people were killed in one night. Those people had to mourn and they had to rebuild their city right away.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.
911 changed everything. We lose more Americans every year drowning in the bathtub than through terrorism. But terrorism has been used as a lever to frighten people, pass legislation, sound tough and coerce us into giving away our rights in pursuit of phantom problems.
Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.
I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.
He was my ultimate present my own personal miracle and I'd blown it. I'd given him away. It was like winning backstage passes to meet the rock star of your dreams and donating the tickets to charity. It sucked. Big time.
He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless. . . For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.
Infatuation. First Love. Lust. My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals
New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various corners, but then they died away as the teacher was absorbed like everyone else. . . before you knew it, the fresh ones seemed to have been teaching there forever too, or else they didn't last very long, and were gone before you'd gotten to know them.
So do you want your life to "take off"? Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be-and move into that. Check every thought, word and action that does not fall into harmony with that. Move away from those.
Writing is the easiest thing in the world. . . . Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
. . . Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.
E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.