M. William Phelps famous quotes

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We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure - the eternal present, for it is always now.
-- M. William Phelps

#Time #Missing #Looks
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
-- M. William Phelps

#Girl #Kids #Boys
Itâ€™s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime â€¦ yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a rivetingâ€”if not terrifyingâ€”narrative of Americaâ€™s most hated â€˜monster,â€™ Aileen Carol Wuornos. Itâ€™s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornosâ€™ evil intentions and rough lifeâ€”a true page-turner, breathless, intenseâ€”but also important.
-- M. William Phelps

#Integrity #Old School #America
It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.
-- M. William Phelps

#Integrity #School #America

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by absolute non-being and by absolute being; or by relative non-being and relative being. . . . All these designation come back to God alone, for there is nothing which we can perceive, know, write or say which is not Him.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.
Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
Without coffee somethingâ€™s missing
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

M. William Phelps famous quotes

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