The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?
Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Patience has tender feet.
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.
I'm actually a really nice guy, once you get to blow me.
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.