I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.