There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.
The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.
Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.
I'm not people, I only eat them.