All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.
Mom always told us to wear pretty, matching underwear.
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
General revenue - what taxpayers are willing to give government, what they think is fair to give government - is not going to grow at the same amount that the federal government basically forces us to spend on Medicaid.
Any of the bands that came out at the same time as us, they're either gone now, or they got just mega huge, like System of a Down or Incubus.
I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.
Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.
Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America's great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most.
Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.
When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.
