Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
In wartime truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
I count myself well educated for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
She felt like a chess player who by the clever handling of his pieces sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.
Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e. 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'
I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics but kind of civic engagement and that kind of thing except I tended to think 'Well do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me it was all about jazz.
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.
This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped and pretended like it didn't happen.
Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
My host at Richmond yesterday morning could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son a clever little boy to show me the road leading to Windsor.
The civility which money will purchase is rarely extended to those who have none.
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.
Property is intended to serve life and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's smile at someone and receive a smile in return are to me continual spiritual exercises.