The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.
If you caress me one more time, you will melt the butter on my toast.
I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.
You haunt my days and dreams.
Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Not being happy really is my fear.
One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.