I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.
You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.
Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.
I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.
The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.
After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T. V. show and tell everyone you like gay people. ' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican. ' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'
I dont want to just be a broker all my life, I want to lead.
You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.