Some of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years just appall me. Why do humans need huge homes? I was born poor and I didn’t know you bought clothes at anything but the Goodwill until I went to college. Some of our mentality about what it means to have a good life is, I think, not going to help us in the next 50 years. We have to think through how to choose a meaningful life where we’re helping one another in ways that really help the Earth.
I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it's so much more real.
I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that some people - usually from those rare "normal" families that I longed for as a child and as an adult wonder if they even exist - didn't understand this and sort of looked down their noses at people suffering with addiction.
There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.
Happy are those who find wisdom. . . She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
Having your own store is one of the most immediate ways to connect with the customer, to really get to know her and develop a more intimate relationship.
All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.
An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.
A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people's articulation of the world.
Neither way is better. Both ways are necessary. It is also necessary To make a choice between them.
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
I do love genres, but I love finding new ways into the genre, or making that world fresh again.
Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.
You know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn't want to do it.
Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.
There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.
Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.
Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.
In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.