Ultimately, my proposal isn't intended to increase or decrease the amount of federal spending spent on antipoverty programs.
Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?
Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them.
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.
Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.
I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.
Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.
Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.
Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.
If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.
If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.