Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity
I'd hate to list our specialties. Wreck cars, eat doughnuts, create mayhem.
Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?
Ranger removed my goggles "Would you like to come home with me?" I stepped away from him. "Thank you for the offer, but no. I'm done with men. " Ranger smiled. "Forever?" "Until I figure some things out. " "And if you don't figure them out?" "If I can't figure them out on my own, I'll ask you to help me. " "Babe, that's like the blind leading the blind.
A uniform cordoned off the area with crime scene tape. The M. E. pulled in and parked. There were two EMT trucks idling at the edge of the lot. I’d stayed close to the back door, and one of the Rangeman guys had taken a position two feet from me, standing at parade rest. No doubt in my mind he’d take a bullet for me rather than face Ranger over a dead Stephanie.
I like my nuts," Mooner said. "I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then.
Opening my door to Dillon Ruddick, my bulding super. I handed him a cup of coffee. "Sorry about the blood. " "What was it this time?" No one reported gunfire. " "I hit a guy in the face with a hair dryer. " "Whoa. " Dillon said. "It wasn't my fault," I told him. "Maybe we should lay down some linoleum here. It would make things easier for clean up.
We can do anything. It’s not because our hearts are large, they’re not, it’s what we struggle with. The attempt to say Come over. Bring your friends. It’s a potluck, I’m making pork chops, I’m making those long noodles you love so much.
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.