If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom ...that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are times when they seem so small! And then again, although they never seem large, there is a vastness behind them, a past o...f indefinite complexity and marvel, an amazing power of absorbing and assimilating, which forces one to suspect some power in the race so different from our own that one cannot understand that power. And ... whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask oneself: "Well, who are the best people to live with?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship--only backward. You try to start again but get i...nto blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer soc...ial life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was an old woman and she lived in a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.... She crumm'd 'em some porridge without any bread And she borrowed a beetle, and she knocked 'em all on the head. Then out went the old woman to bespeak 'em a coffin And when she came back she found' em all a-loffing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I tell you boys there aint any answer, just you believe me, there aint any answer,... there aint going to be any answer, there nev...er has been any answer, that's the answer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then I said to myself, "What happens to the fool will happen to me also; why then have I been so very wise?" And I said to myself ...that this also is vanity. For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD w...as not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, -What are you doing here, Elijah?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock; and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock,... and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by; then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be seen."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »