The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live up to, because it's not real.
Always is no Time at all.
The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.
Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.
The illusion is we are only physical.
I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.
Some people are quick to challenge others but refuse to look in the mirror and challenge themselves.
Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive, ivory-tower moniker might suggest. There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. Oh, the Oxford comma. Here, in case you don't know what it is yet, is the perennial example, as espoused by Harold Ross: "The flag is red, white, and blue. " So what do you think of it? Are you for or against it? Do you hover in between?
There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.
Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.