An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.
"Arms, and the man I sing, who forc'ed by Fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting Hate; Expell'ed and exil'd, left the Trojan Shoar: Long Labours, both by Sea and Land he bore; And in the doubtful War, before he won, the Latian realm, and built the destin'd Town: His banish'd gods restor'd to Rites Divine, and setl'd sure Succession in his line: From Whence the Race of Alban Fathers come, and the long Glories of Majestick Rome."
On God: He scatters grace liberally and arbitrarily, so all men may hope.
If time's a true dimension we can pace or race or chase both up and down - again, again, again.
You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive
I have had too much experience with revenants to scoff at the living traces the dead leave behind. Ghosts walk, no doubt about it
Marlowe would embrace hell itself, if hell were all that the curtain hid
... he sighed, knowing himself to be caught forever between worlds - earth and air, reason and belief, action and contemplation. Alone among all sorts of men, he embraced a poet's martyrdom
It is literature that counts. You embrace a kind of martyrdom to write what you have to write
It may be that love turned to hate is terribly common in sexual matters: it may be that hate turned to love is not uncommon in the rivalries of race or class. But any philosophy about the sexes that begins with anything but the mutual attraction of the sexes, begins with a fallacy; and all its historical comparisons are as irrelevant and impertinent as puns.
I'll race you to China. You can have a head start. Ready, set, GO!
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people is to deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.
No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.