The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.