When he thought about how he had been slighted, condescended to, manipulated and deceived, he became angry. Obedience was a monastic virtue, but outside the cloisters it had its drawbacks, he thought...
Fathers were supposed to be invulnerable - but that attitude was childish, he now saw. Irritatingly, he might have to change his outlook. He could no longer be merely indignant and resentful. He was n...
—Que Dios nos libre de los hombres con un destino dictado por la voluntad divina
When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I c...
We will have to repent, in this generation, not merely for the hateful words and actions of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good,’ King said,
They did not suspect her for a moment. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were. Women could do most of the things men did. Who was left in charge when the men w...
She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.
But her angry feminism had set as hard as concrete during years of living alongside the tough, hardworking, dirt-poor women of London’s East End. Men often told a fairy tale in which there was a divis...
World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love...
Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?
Little things please little minds.
I went to the doctor, said the woman next to Ethel. I said to him, 'I've got an itchy twat.'[...] She went on: The doctor says to me, he goes, 'You shouldn't say that, it's a rude word.'[...]I says to...
Ethel said: Lloyd, there's someone here you may remember- Daisy could not restrain herself. She ran to Lloyd and threw herself into his arms. She hugged him. She looked into his green eyes, then kisse...
I enjoy learning technical details.
You never get cheered for telling people the situation is not as simple as they think.
There was a long moment of silence. Philip was holding his breath. When Remigius looked up again, his face was wet with tears. Yes , please, Father, he said. I want to come home. Philip felt a glow of...
In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that eve...
A white American can orbit the earth, but a black American can’t enter a restroom.
If it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.