The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.
this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along.
No one really listens to the drums, I don't think. They're there, but it's not a conscious thing to listen to. Everyone listens to the vocals, of course, and the words.
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.
My legacy is that I stayed on course. . . from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which I liked, but it was a - just a kind of a general education that I got, a regular academic - academic diploma, but I kind of had the feeling that art was something that I really liked the most but I wasn't really sure that that was it.
All government, of course, is against liberty.
The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.
Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.
The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.
Who in the world remembers who won the 1975 Westchester Classic or the 1978 Western Open? Basically, the majors are the only comparison over time. . . played on the same courses for generations. All the best players are always there.
Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.
What I'm looking forward to is changing the course America is on.
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?
Of course, now as a woman you can do so much, without being necessarily a rinpoche.
Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature
I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker.