"O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!"
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"The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live."
"I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am."
"I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down."
"Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way."
"We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history in the Bible until Josiah."
"For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy."
"I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer."
"I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does."
"Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it."
"Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!"
"The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light."
"But the way to wealth through the quill seems long."
"Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication?"
"Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it."
"When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands."
"Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it."
"It's just mind-blowingly awesome. I apologize, and I wish I was more articulate, but it's hard to be articulate when your mind's blown-but in a very good way."
"I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way"
"What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy."