You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.
Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend. . . a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.
I actually enjoy the pain. That's what gives me the fire inside to get up and keep going.
The truth is that we have long had a multi-track Europe with very different objectives. The traditional differences between the north and the south in fiscal and economic policy are far less problematic than those that exist between Eastern and Western Europe. In the south and east, China is steadily gaining more influence, such that a few EU member states no longer dare to make decisions that run counter to Chinese interests. You see it everywhere: China is the only country in the world that has a real geopolitical strategy.
I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.
I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.