Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.
I worried that people wouldn't like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.
A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.
Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.
I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.
But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I'm not perfect.
I need some me-time. I have to remember to rest, because I have a natural energy and I don't want to burn out.
Do you have someone watching her house?” (Stephanie) “That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We’re so underbudgeted we’re one step away from holding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli)
Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and restlessness felt like profound states of being, and he just wandered the empty beaches and misty headlands in a state of serene confusion and awe.
As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.
I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.