If something just plain didn't make sense to Alvin, he didn't believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles

There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.

Daniel Amory

Nobody can predict the future but it's worth trying to influence the direction.

Ron De Jonge

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

Orson Scott Card

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

P. J. O'Rourke

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.

Liza Mundy

I am blessed to be a proud father of a daughter.

Adnan Sami

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

his burden didn't feel any lighter. but he felt strong enough to carry it

Amish Tripathi

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

E. M. Forster

Time has transfigured them intoUntruth. The stone fidelityThey hardly meant has come to beTheir final blazon, and to proveOur almost-instinct almost true:What will survive of us is love.

Philip Larkin

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus