I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.
Power. . . was the coin of the Washington realm and, without it, you might as well file for bankruptcy.
My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.
A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.
I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.
I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.
The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.
Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back
Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.
You might be a redneck if your favorite T-shirt is offensive in thirteen states.
If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected,. . With a comprehensive tracking system, we would.
When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something.
The world ends when I die. And as far as I'm concerned, the rest of the universe might as well call it a day too.
The world news might not be therapeutic.
I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.
I look for things that no one I know, even myself, would ever come up with. If your solution is something that your friends or family might come up with, throw it away.
An insurance company might say, "Tell us more about yourself so your premiums can go down. " When they say that, they're addressing the winners, not the losers.