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“Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.”
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“To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.”
Source : Ludwig Feuerbach (1967). “Lectures on the essence of religion”
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“It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.”
Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose”, p.99, Vintage
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“By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred.”
Source : Wendy Shalit (2000). “A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue”, p.212, Simon and Schuster
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“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
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“To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.”
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“My money's on the big Indian,' someone was saying. I peeked up to see that Tyler, Mike, Austin and Ben had there heads bent together, deep in conversation. 'Yeah,' Mike whispered. 'Did you see the size of that Jacob kid? I think he could take Cullen down.' Mike seemed pleased by the idea.”
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“The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.”
