We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
I felt a wish to be fictionalized.
You're going to hate to hear this, but you're too young to get it. Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you're thirty is exciting and will change...
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to...
Reality is okay if you have a friend that will help you up when it comes around to smack you in the face.
Why are there so many Smith's in the phone book? A: They all have phones!
Every child of God is not called by the Lord to establish schools and orphan houses and to trust in the Lord for means for them. Yet, there is no reason why you may not experience, far more abundantly...
In a smooth, unhurried motion, Jenks reached out and slapped him. Seems to me you should pull the brains out of your ass.
Just because anyone can, doesn't mean everyone can.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Aslan said Lucy you're bigger. That is because you are older, little one answered he. Not because you are? I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.
Whatever may be happening today, peace is the meaning of tomorrow
Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Sexual harassment cases are piling up. The whole school's going love crazy!
Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll... I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you, she improvised. And that I got mugged, she added for good measure. Cries of Mon Dieu! and That's not...
Persistent effort is what will create the life you most desire.
There was the old myth of divine intervention. You blasphemed, and a lightning bolt struck you. That was a little steep too. If punishment is at all proportionate to the offense, then power becomes...
You look like the vamp who bled the cat.
Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.
They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of cloud and the vast world of sand and scrub shearing upward into the shoreless...
He glared at Lucian in the manner of birds, first peering through one eye and then turning his head to peer through the other, apparently finding both views equally loathsome.
His impulsive bust had been as beautiful as a first kiss to a child. And, she felt, as important.
But when she put her fingers into the water and pulled a marble out, it was small by comparison with those still in the glass, and unimportant, too. It was like the difference between what you long...
I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace
The best things in life are not things, but they are our beautiful loving thoughts.
And when horny, well-paid American flyboys are dropped into a culture defined half by cannibals and half by Frenchmen, you get a hell of a civilian economy.
They know a million tricks, those novelists.
It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health. - Joyce Meyer
Betty realized that when it came to relationships with other human beings, she would always feel alone. And yet there was this place – this small special place inside of her – a place where quiet...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all...
the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...