Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.
To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.
I came, I saw, God conquered.
Those who believe in ghosts always see them.
Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge.
So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.
He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who, exactly, he refuses to say. He doesn’t know when he’s going to be back, but suggests we put off the wedding for a few days. The rotter! How dare he just zoom off and not tell me where he’s going, or who he’s going to help, or what exactly he’s up to!” Yeah, how dare he go out and be all heroic and stuff when you want him here slobbering over your big boobs.
Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.