Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.
Lionel Shriver
Recitation: by Male by Female
Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
John Burroughs
CommunicationBestManFeetPlant
Is it 'a drag' that passions don't come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them? Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.
Angela Duckworth
RealityEarlyNeedWithoutFragile
If you really think everything in your life, everything that you benefit from comes from socially aware, like-minded, good-hearted people, then you're out of your mind. If you want only those people to have good jobs, we would have to learn how to adjust very quickly without those people. Maybe I'm cynical, but I truly believe that.
Michael Che
LifeGoodPeopleMindBelieveThink
Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better than Joe Biden to give us a little hyperbole, as we all know.
Stephen Pagliuca
BetterNobodyKnowDaysLittleUs
I live a pretty simple life.
Tom Selleck
LifeLiveSimpleSimple LifePretty
Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.
Rose Tremain
MeResearchSurroundingsMy OwnReal
I gave my life to Christ about 1991.
Lou Gramm
LifeMy LifeChristAboutGave
Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.
Joyce Meyer
GodTruthWifeManMeTruth Is
Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.
Judd Hirsch
YouStageAwayJustThrowSome
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
Josef Albers
GodArtistNowItalyScientist
When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.
Diane Arbus
MotherColdGrowYouBecomeSee
It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.
Craig L. Thomas
GovernmentBudgetYearRiseAnything
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