Everything we own really belongs to God, we are just renting it, and when we die those things are going to become somebody else's possessions.
Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
There is some sampling on my records and a lot of what I call replays, where I'd have musicians come in the studio and replay the sample from the original record. But mainly, we'd come up with our own music.
It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.
People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.
Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes.
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
Liberalism has never done as well as it thinks at resolving its own crises.
Every day, first responders put their own lives on the line to ensure our safety. The least we can do is make sure they have the tools to protect and serve their communities.
Judges can bring their own biases about sexuality in the courtroom, causing victims untold pain in the telling and retailing of their stories.
The diagnosis was immediate: Masses matting the lungs and deforming the spine. Cancer. In my neurosurgical training, I had reviewed hundreds of scans for fellow doctors to see if surgery offered any hope. I'd scribble in the chart 'Widely metastatic disease - no role for surgery,' and move on. But this scan was different: It was my own.
I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.
Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.
Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.
Peace is its own reward.
