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Of course I'll respect you in the morning,' she reassured. 'I might disparage you a bit in the afternoon, mind,' she added. 'But I can guarantee my undivided respect in the morning.

However, my sense of hospitality decreases in direct proportion to the number of glasses of wine that I've had, so by dessert and coffee time I am usually far too relaxed (all right then, far too drunk, if you will insist on calling a spade a spade) and no longer feel any need to clear the table.

He teaches us to see love as our only function.

It is not the radicalism of hate that is our biggest danger today; our biggest danger is that we lack the radicalism of love.

Enlightenment is a shift in worldview, and only a more enlightened thinking can deliver us to an enlightened world.

There's no time to discriminate, hate every motherfucker that's in your way.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

I mean only respect when I say that your mother has always struck me as someone with whom the Lord might have chosen to spend some part of His mortal time

We are culturally predisposed to sheltering criticism from criticism; we have enshrined the iconoclast

I could probably not say more than that life is a very deep mystery, and that finally the grace of God is all that can resolve it. And the grace of God is also a very deep mystery.

When people come to speak to me, whatever they say, I am struck by a kind of incandescence in them, the 'I' whose predicate can be 'love' or 'fear' or 'want,' and whose object can be 'someone' or 'nothing' and it won't really matter, because the loveliness is just in that presence, shaped around 'I' like a flame on a wick, emanating itself in grief and guilt and joy and whatever else.

I think it is notable in this connection that it is not Adam but the Lord who rebukes Cain.

She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished.

The word preacher comes from an old French word, predicateur, which means prophet. And what is the purpose of a prophet except to find meaning in trouble?

Musing thus, she set out upon on her widowhood, and became altogether as good a widow as she had been a wife.

A shabby fellow with a furtive air can be as gallant as the next man, depending on circumstances.

So the congregation took up collections to put him in college and then to send him to Germany. And he came back an atheist.

Wasn't it true that Sometimes the greatest misfortunes brought unforseen rewards? -Don Corleone

Mercy is a vice, a pretension to powers we do not have. Those who give mercy commit an unpardonable offense to the victim. And that is not our duty here on earth.

He realized that at the root of Guiliano's romanticism was the brilliant penetration of paranoia.

He used the Sicilian phrase of the Mafia, "Fari vagnari a pizzu." Pizzu means the beak of any small bird such as a canary. The phrase itself was a demand for part of the loot.

Get in the car. If I wanted to kill you you'd be dead now. Trust me.

las dos personas más influyentes en el destino de Guatemala y, en cierta forma, de toda Centroamérica en el siglo XX fueron Edward L. Bernays y Sam Zemurray