I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December right?
To a Christian Easter Sunday means everything when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Golf is good it means I get some fresh air and exercise take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.
These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.
If something is irrational that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it to kill it to rid it of its soul to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort and effort means work.
Just as man can't exist without his body so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality to think to work and keep the results which means: the right of property.
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder the means by which we are translated?
Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough all that running around and sweating somehow believing it means anything).
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion.
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom and perhaps more malice than either that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently or that they are necessarily determined to folly I must by no means grant it.
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
The word philosophy sounds high-minded but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something you don't just read about it you hug it you mess with it you play with it you argue with it.
Personally I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.
War is by no means something glamorous and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
The political object is the goal war is the means of reaching it and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument a continuation of political intercourse a carrying out of the same by other means.
There's no question that jihad historically means war.