“Everybody’s got somewhere to go. Just takes some folks longer to figure out where to.”
“I guess it comes down to greed. You don’t pay folks, you make more money. That and thinking one race wasn’t as good as another.”
“What’s a quick fling in the sack compared to decades of indifference?”
“She wrote the phone number down on another slip of paper, rushed into the bathroom, crumpled up the letter, and flushed it down the toilet. For one paralyzing moment she envisioned federal law enforcement agents hiding somewhere in the White House intercepting her toilet water and reconstructing the letter. But that was impossible. That was the stuff of Orwell’s 1984. Yet in some ways, by living at the White House, she had already seen Orwell’s masterpiece of “fascism perfected” in a way most Americans could never imagine. She”
“When you love someone you got to be prepared to hate too.”
“Farming was a risky proposition under even the best of circumstances. Folks who toiled in the dirt could do everything right and a drought or an early freeze could come and wipe them out.”
“she glimpsed an aging man who had just lost everything and had no idea what he was supposed to be doing with the time he had left to live.”
“Based on my own experience, boys will mess with your heart and girls with your head.”
“thousand yards of this place.” “Who is she?”
“And asking people to take the time to read and actually think about stuff? Heaven forbid.”
“Issues. The dreaded word. It seemed so innocuous. Issues. Everyone had issues.”
“My mom said you always write thank-you letters, and besides, I wanted to.”
“The white men had basically crapped all over the only race that could call itself indigenous in America.”
“While it was true that the president of the United States was the world’s ultimate juggler of tasks, it was also a fact that the First Lady, traditionally, was no slouch in that department either.”
“When you didn’t have much, you tended to keep what you had.”
“engine, picked up the pages, ripped off the rubber band, and”
“You see, the human creature is prone to legalism. There is nothing the devil likes more than to impose a set of legalistic rules on a person. Then when that person has a hard time keeping those rules, his confidence that God will move in his life is greatly shaken.”
“I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a car, I shouldn’t expect words to substitute for experience. That’s not their job, although words certainly can be misused in that way. The job of words is to direct us toward experience, to round out experience, to facilitate experience, and to give us ways to share at least pale shadows of that experience with those we love. And the job of words is to help us learn to be — and act — human.”
“Algebra-Readpages 7-14. Do the odd numbered problems. From what I've seen, they're all pretty odd.”
“I wondered if there might be a difference between what you wanted to do yourself, even if you thought it was right, and what God wanted you to do. And how else could you find out what He wanted except by asking Him?”
“either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.”
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