I began to shiver. You never know how much you miss a person’s warmth until they stop giving it to you.
A paper flower, rather carefully done. A lotus.
Well, I’m glad you listen to Hermione Granger at any rate,” she said, pointing him out of her office.
If someone’s going to have an expensive, pointless hobby, I’d rather it was skiing. Or better still, buying me expensive, pointless things.
Mrs. Weasley let out a shriek just like Hermione’s. “I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it! Oh, Ron, how wonderful! A prefect! That’s everyone in the family!
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
The added cost of higher wages is offset by savings from lower labor turnover and higher labor productivity.
Reputation is what others think you are; character is what God knows you are.
Racing over the hills in the country the wind blew vast rings of shadow that dwindled again to green.
I’m not holding Hitler up as a role model, the man was a filthy swine, but as I stood in the suspicious glare of my boss I thought, “What would Hitler do?
The Potters smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily back at them, his hands pressed flat against the glass as though he was hoping to fall right through it and reach them. He had a powerful kind of ache inside him, half joy, half terrible sadness.
I hope I reach the point where epiphanies become so commonplace that I scarcely bother to register them: “Oh look, another epiphany – as we acquire knowledge we become mired in the ignorance of the educated, delivered from the wisdom of innocence by a corrupted midwife. Now what’s on telly?
Be the little boy in the Emperor Wears No Clothes. If you can’t do this, don’t write.
Todo lo malo rebota tarde o temprano, por eso hacer mal no es rentable, pues tarde o temprano tendremos que enfrentarnos con nuestras propias acciones y pagar nuestros errores.
A Theory of Technological Evolution.
No little part of the torment of existence lies in this, that Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming after us, like a taskmaster with a whip.
An endless, meaningless string of apologies signals a failure to change one’s own behavior. What matters is not whether the person was authentic or “really meant it” in those passionate expressions of remorse. All that counts is whether that person follows through so there is no repeat performance.
Don’t even bother telling a white conservative about anything racist that happened to you. Because the conservative will tell you that YOU are the real racist and your mouth will hang open in confusion.
It would be tedious to attempt a phonetic reproduction of Mr. Sage’s utterances. Enough to say that they were genteel to a fantastic degree. “Aye thot Aye heeard somewon teeking may neem in veen,” may give some idea of his rendering of the above sentence. Let it go at that.
If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon.