All his life he treasured mild illnesses as justification for purely voluntary reading.
Alan Jacobs on C.S. Lewis
The bull who killed Vicente Girones was named Bocanegra, was Number 118 of the bull-breeding establishment of Sanchez Taberno, and was killed by Pedro Romero as the third bull of that same afternoon. His ear was cut by popular acclamation and given to Pedro Romero, who, in turn, gave it to Brett, who wrapped it in a handkerchief belonging to myself, and left both ear and handkerchief, along with a number of Muratti cigarette-stubs, shoved far back in the drawer of the bed-table that stood beside her bed in the Hotel Montoya, in Pamplona.
Fear stimulates my imagination.
Don Draper
The glory of God is man fully alive.
St. Irenaeus
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
History is war, punctuated by brief periods of peace.
Kevin Turner
If you’re not going to govern yourself, someone will govern you. There’s modern history.
Kevin Turner
Come to, see, and conquer the New American Cursive.
It is an error to think that those who flee worldly affairs and engage in contemplation are leading an angelic life… We know that men were created to busy themselves with labor and that no sacrifice is more pleasing to God than when each one attends to his calling and studies well to live for the common good.
John Calvin
Strictly a Sharpshooter by Norman Rockwell
