. . . I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.
A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.
Iran should write us a letter of thank you for taking Mosul.
Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.
[John's Adams] description of [Benjamin] Franklin in a letter to [his wife] Abigail in 1775 is laudatory. Only when he experiences all the adulation paid to Franklin in Paris does he begin to change his tune.
In our counterterrorism cases and our counterintelligence cases, we can issue all kinds of - of layers of approval in the FBI, a national security letter to find out the subscriber to a particular telephone number and to find out what numbers that telephone number was in contact with. Not the content of those communications, but just the connection.
You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.
There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
I like you; your eyes are full of language. " [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964. ]
The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.
I've always said if I could own one piece it would be Vermeer's The Love Letter, and if I could put it anywhere it would be in a David Chipperfield building. I'm almost there with the building - Chipperfield is building a new house for me in London. The Vermeer is a long way off.
I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.
Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?
We have so many different options now and ways to communicate digitally. But I don't think anything is more meaningful or powerful than a hand-written letter.
Try writing. . . a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.
. . . You're omniscient, right?" "For the most part, yes. " "Then you have to tell me this ‘cause I have to know. What's at the end of everything?" He shrugged. "That's easy enough. " "Then tell me. " "The letter G.
