As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.
I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
I particularly remember the time I gave (the research director) my paper on the banking industry. I felt very proud of my work. However, he read through it and said, 'This is useless. What makes the stock go up and down?' That comment acted as a spur. Thereafter, I focused my analysis on seeking to identify the factors that were strongly correlated to a stock's price movement as opposed to looking at all the fundamentals. Frankly, even today, many analysts still don't know what makes their particular stocks go up and down.
You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.
So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.
Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, "No, I just want to be an actor. "