The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
The problem with money issued by any government is that its only value is what those in charge decree.
The average juror is not Mr. Spock. If he were, then a trial-court judge's job would be much easier. He could instruct the jury in broad strokes - instructing only as to the bare elements of the crime, perhaps - and be confident that the jury would deduce all of the finer-grained implications that must logically follow.
How do we make hockey more affordable? How do we get it into more households? How do we keep it part of the conversation? Those are things that will help us not only increase registration numbers from a grassroots level but also deepen the player pool from the senior national team and the elite level.
Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.
Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
Some defeats are only installments to victory.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.
We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
If I lose the ball, I want to get on it as quickly as possible and make up for it, whereas before, I would hide away and maybe only look for the ball 10 minutes later. I don't want to give the defenders any break.
