I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.
We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.
I have no problem with commenters stating strong opinions, except for my usual annoyance with people who don't agree with me.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
I like flawed characters, and I like seeing people who are supposed to be not villains but antagonists. There are elements to them, which are really annoying, but you kind of see where they came from. You see the things that caused those inadequacies.
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.
Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.
Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
