One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
I've learned. . . That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations.
Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.
Today's Democrat Party believes that distinct American culture is corrupt, biased, racist, sexist, prejudicial, homophobic. There is nothing about it they want to preserve.
Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 911. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 911, but, if you think about what caused 911, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.