If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him
All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.
Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be punished and brought back, but this necessity breaks my heart.
Death ends a life, it does not end a relationship.
Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find.
When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of an object itself, he is very close to the rationalist doctrine. Hume was really a covert objectivist (or partial one) about aesthetic pleasure because that pleasure had to be based on the sensitivity to features in the object.
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.