Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.
Already many of the memories of the previous two weeks had faded: the smell of that small hotel in St. Andrews; that mixture of bacon cooking for breakfast and the lavender-scented soap in the bathroo...
Now that he had invited Tilly, William found himself trying to remember what she looked like. It was almost like going on a blind date, he thought, something that previously he would never have dreame...
Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure—the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! [from...
The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes foolish, like people anywhere, but they did not bear grudges, as Mr Mandela had shown the world.
People’s lives are delicate; you cannot interfere with them without running the risk of changing them profoundly. A chance remark, a careless involvement, may make the difference between a life of hap...
Saying sorry does not make you look small—it makes you look big.
Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.
Nemo dat quod non habet.
We should all busy ourselves in being who we are,
There was any number of men like that, waiting for an attractive girl that they could latch on to and whose life they could slowly destroy.
We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, peop...
People are very slow to say sorry. I
Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
Society may be post-Christian, but could hardly ignore its Judeo-Christian past; we did not, after all, come from nowhere.
I do not think this is so, because there is no difference between white men and black men; we are all the same; we are just people.
Will you be my friend? Bertie asked. And then added: Just for Paris. You don’t have to be my friend forever – just for Paris.
It,’ he said. ‘People change their
It was all very well occupying the moral high ground on electoral reform, but what really mattered, she thought, was how you treated your mother.
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