My friend devotes himself to his life, whenever he can find the spare time. His motto is: 'Don't just sit there: live!' So he's to...o busy to stand, to walk, to do anything, except to live. He even refused to kiss a girl, when invited, on the grounds that it was time again to be living. Schedules are sacred to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part, Nay, I have done: you get no more of me,... And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain; Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath, When his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies, When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And Innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The daily arguments over putting away the toys or practicing the piano defeat us so easily. We see them coming yet they frustrate ...us time and time again. In many cases, we are mothers and fathers who have managed budgets and unruly bosses and done difficult jobs well through sheer tenacity and dogged preparation. So why are we unable to persuade someone three feet tall to step into six inches of water at bathtime?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I thank you for your letter. I was very glad to get it; and I am glad again to write to you. However slow the steamer, no time int...ervenes between the writing and the reading of thoughts, but they come freshly to the most distant port.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He took control of me for forty-five minutes. This time I'll have control over him for the rest of his life. If he gets out fiftee...n years from now, I'll know. I'll check on him every three months through police computers. If he makes one mistake he's going down again. I'll make sure. I'm his worst enemy now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,... A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devoured As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There will be a new church founded on moral science, at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again, the algebra and mathematic...s of ethical law, the church of men to come, without shams, or psaltery, or sackbut; but it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters; science for symbol and illustration; it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry. Was never stoicism so stern and exigent as this shall be. It shall send man home to his central solitude, shame these social, supplicating manners, and make him know that much of the time he must have himself to his friend. He shall expect no cooperation, he shall walk with no companion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you ...can fool all of the people all of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair--a process in time. It is good as a whole through being good in its pa...rts, and through their good order to one another. It cannot be called good as a whole until it is finished. During the process all we can say of it, if we speak precisely, is that it is becoming good. The same is true of a whole human life. Just as the whole performance never exists at any one time, but is a process of becoming, so a human life is also a performance in time and a process of becoming. And just as the goodness that attaches to the performance as a whole does not attach to any of its parts, so the goodness of a human life as a whole belongs to it alone, and not to any of its parts or phases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »