The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.
When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.
Geology. . . offers always some material for observation. . . . [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.
I think the possibilities are endless in terms of what the genre would be like. However, in terms of looking for sources of money, I think we have to be very careful not to fall into Hollywood's commodification of Chicano culture. We could look at the example of Piri Thomas, a successful Puerto Rican writer now living in the Bay Area, who has received repeated offers from Hollywood. . . and he said he's not going to write about his people doing drugs and going to jail.
Even now, for women to be contemplating the act of ending their life is considered horrific because they are the giver of life. They're seen in a patriarchal society as the one who offers life and has to nurture a child and have a child within them. That's your only role.
Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.
The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.
I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.
I take the opportunity each day offers.
Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.
Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
As you love God and serve Him, you will undoubtedly experience the greatest adventure life has to offer.
The reflective person opens up her inner world and embarks on the greatest adventure that life has to offer – getting to know and understand oneself.
Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.
Led by myself and two colleagues, the course offers a newly developed model of spiritual direction that draws on both the age-old wisdom of the church and more recent perspectives. I call it the PassionWisdom Model of Spiritual Direction, and I see it as offering the opportunity for our interior worlds and supernatural reality to meet.
The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.
We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.