The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

