I respect guilt. It is a dangerous but sometimes useful beast. The guilt that made me want to solve all my children's problems mea...nt trouble. The guilt that made me question my role in our mother-daughter squabbles proved helpful. Yes, I care about my kids' problems, and I long to make suggestions. But these days I wait for children to ask for help, and I give it sparingly. Some things can't be fixed, and I tell them so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for a...nything more?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We ask for no statistics of the killed, For nothing political impinges on... This single casualty, or all those gone, Missing or healing, sinking or dispersed, Hundreds of thousands counted, millions lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And so we ask for peace for the gods of our fathers, for the gods of our native land. It is reasonable that whatever each of us wo...rships is really to be considered one and the same. We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe compasses us. What does it matter what practical systems we adopt in our search for the truth. Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessio...ns upon the same terms as to the men--because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »