There's no way to turn this into something that works to his advantage. |
This is a choice that makes overwhelming sense. |
This is going to be an awful year. It doesn't seem likely that anything gets done. |
This probably hurts (President) Bush and the Republicans, because they are the party in charge and because it leaves standing the House bill as a motivation for more Latino demonstrations. |
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours |
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. |
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. |
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. |
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. |
We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need. |
What is uttered is finished and done with. |
What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back; as it is grief at not being able to want to do so |