Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
I have to admit that all of us creatively involved with 'Commander' absolutely intended to put the term 'Madam President' into the zeitgeist. I can't deny it.
I will be Madame Frexit if the European Union doesn't give us back our monetary, legislative, territorial, and budget sovereignty.
We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
In her previous novels, Maggie O'Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and the unexpected intimacy of distance - geographic, temporal, cultural. In 'The Hand That First Held Mine' and 'The Distance Between Us,' characters separated by many miles or many years turn out to be joined in ways they never anticipated.
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.
Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic.
Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
Time marks us while we are marking time.
We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.
Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.
And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.
We're being very careful that we don't send a spacecraft to Mars with the intention of detecting Martian life - and find out that we detected the Earth life that we took with us.
