Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.
I often say we have a lot to learn from men regarding friendships. They tend to be less crazy about their friendships. They don't care if you don't call them back. They don't get hung up on who you're dating. I love men! But I also love women. There is richness in both types of friendships.
In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.