The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.

Sometimes he pursued the call into the forest, looking for it as though it were a tangible thing, barking softly or defiantly… Irresistible impulses seized him. he would be lying in camp, dozing lazily in the heat of the day, when suddenly his head would lift and his ears cock up, intent and listening, and he would spring on his feet and dash away, and on and on, for hours, though the forest aisles.

Suddenly, they saw its back end drop down, as into a rut, and the gee-pole, with Hal clinging to it, jerk into the air. Mercedes’s scream came to their ears. They saw Charles turn and make one step to run back, and then a whole section of ice give way and dogs and humans disappear. A yawning hole was all that was to be seen. The bottom had dropped out of the trail. John Thornton and Buck looked at each other. “You poor devil,” said John Thornton, and Buck licked his hand.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realizes: hey, there are votes in this!

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

What day is it?” It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. My favorite day,” said Pooh.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?

Dr. Rush’s Bilious Pills,” laxatives that were 50 percent mercury. I think they were reusable: you swallowed one, suffered the violent scatological consequences, reclaimed the pill, washed it and saved it for the next poor sucker

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

If you will it, it is no dream; and if you do not will it, a dream it is and a dream it will stay.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of ‘the arts’ began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we’re the parents of Iggy Pop.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

The nation that prepares for war will sooner or later have war. We get just anything we prepare for, and we get nothing else. Everything that happens is a sequence: this happened today because you did that yesterday.

Baby, ain’t nobody gonna love me like the way you do And you ain’t never gonna find a love like mine

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.

There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre’s hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.

It isn’t the ups and downs that make life difficult; it’s the jerks.

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is

The LORD says, “I will help thee.” Strength within is supplemented by help without. God can raise us up allies in our warfare if so it seems good in His sight; and even if He does not send us human assistance, He Himself will be at our side, and this is better still. “Our August Ally” is better than legions of mortal helpers.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.