We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart.
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead.
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.
Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.
As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war. . . You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.