I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.
This is hard. . . Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is. ' -- Josie & Ash
There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.
Nothing good is ever easy. Or worth it.
Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.
Girlfriends' code. What's discussed with girlfriends stays with girlfriends.
Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. ’Tis obvious that fighting is your skill.
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.
The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. With them, nothing was "settled" that was not right. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were "final;" not slavery and oppression.
The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend, be 'left'? Who is 'reactionary' and who is 'progressive'? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended.