The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize
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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.
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The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.
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Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door
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A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps
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Acts 8:1:
And Saul approved of their killing him. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
(NIV)
AND SAUL was [not only] consenting to [Stephen's] death [he was pleased and entirely approving]. On that day a great and severe persecution broke out against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles (special messengers).
(AMP)
And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
(KJV)
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Acts 13:1:
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.
(NIV)
NOW IN the church (assembly) at Antioch there were prophets (inspired interpreters of the will and purposes of God) and teachers: Barnabas, Symeon who was called Niger [Black], Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
(AMP)
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
(KJV)
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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
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Technology has to be deployed on a global basis and has to be user friendly.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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What is art but a way of seeing? by
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To get the whole world out of bed And washed, and dressed, and warmed, and fed, To work, and back to bed again, Believe me, Saul, costs worlds of pain.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur w...
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that
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