Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women's friendships, it seems,the thing that makes them bubble and rise.
Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
Refusing to look at the evidence, this is also popular.
Priests were illegal, saying the mass was illegal, all banned by the Revolution.
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
Plus, Tig said, it reminds me to be patient. Seeing all these people that have passed on. I get frustrated sometimes, waiting. For people to die? Yeah. To be honest. The guys in charge of everything r...
Our way was to share a fire until it burned down, To speak to each other until every person was satisfied. Younger men listened to older men. Now the tell us the vote of a young, careless man counts...
Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments we'll accept as valid for declining certain foods. Genera...
One red feather for celebration. No one yet has seen it but me. When Miss Dickinson says, Hope is the thing with feathers, I always think of something round—a ball from one of the games I will never p...
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
Now I need to be careful where I go next, because (for their own protection) there are laws in thirteen states that make it illegal to say anything bad about cows.
Life proceeds, it enrages.
Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.
It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.
It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. -Adah Price, The Poisonwood Bible
If fight or flight is the choice, it’s way easier to fly.
I've just fallen on some bad luck and landed jelly side down.