Different mentors throughout my life have supported and guided me to remember that I do have the strength, courage and talent to do whatever I want to do.
If Barack Obama believes there are no victims in U. S, then I assume he'll shut down all the civil rights offices throughout the federal government, starting with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. If there are no victims, all affirmative action laws will immediately be repealed. Same thing for equity in pay.
This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.
I admire Lincoln enormously and I think what's interesting about Lincoln is how he changes, it's not that he held the same view throughout his life.
Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe. . . a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy.
I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.
Failure to meditate in the morning increases the probability of chaos throughout the day.
I think love is like a learning process throughout your life. You learn how to be better at it and you learn more about it.
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.
Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.
Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private domain where it can do [less] harm.
I have maintained a low profile throughout my career but have always done things in my own unique way, be it dancing or dressing up. On the dance floor, I had my own unique steps and often had to lead my choreographer.
Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.
A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.
There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick - thou art All - in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee. "
It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.
Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.