She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.
What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.
God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes. . . . TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
People who lack self-regulation are often invasive of others. They can be perceived as being controlling, antagonistic, or even subversive.
I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness; but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland. . . In all countries, more or less, paupers may be discovered; but an entire nation of paupers is what was never seen until it was shown in Ireland.
Frankly speaking, I could never even imagine that such information would be of interest to the American public or that the campaign headquarters of one of the candidates - in this case, Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton - apparently worked for her, rather than for all the Democratic Party candidates in an equal manner. I could never assume that anybody would find it interesting.