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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and read more
Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance
"Man wants but little here below
Nor wants that little long,"
'Tis not with me exactly so;
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"Man wants but little here below
Nor wants that little long,"
'Tis not with me exactly so;
But 'tis so in the song.
My wants are many, and, if told,
Would muster many a score;
And were each wish a mint of gold,
I still should long for more.
Every wish
Is like a prayer--with God.
Every wish
Is like a prayer--with God.
O, that I were where I would be,
Then would I be where I am not;
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O, that I were where I would be,
Then would I be where I am not;
For where I am I would not be,
And where I would be I can not.
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms read more
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
Wishing, of all employments is the worst.