Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.With your own voice,' he said.
If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours...
Don't Stop Believing
Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. He does not look so mighty lying there, he said wonderingly. He does not look so much greater than me.
Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.
Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last breathTo spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.
'Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.'
Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. Where the imagination is alive, possibility is awake because imagination is the great friend of possibility. Possibilities are always more...
I don't believe that death comes at the end of a life. I believe your death was there at your birth with you. It was the unknown presence. Every step of the road of your life that you take, your death...
It's okay, mummy's in there lying on the floor. She'll be alright in an hour or so.
The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.
You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.
If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?
In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The...
A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones
FK THAT. I AM TUCKER MAX. I AM BETTER THAN ALL OF YOU.
It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply.
I'm just a kid, Chiron, I said miserably. What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?Chiron managed a smile. 'What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something...
Yes? she asked, eyeing me guardedly.I struck out a hand and said Shake.Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. One good fight doesn't make you a warrior, she said.Shake! I repeated...
I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion.
Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear-all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human "heart" are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows...
-Why do you smile if you threw me? He offered my hand. -The small things are the ones that make me happy.
Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you...
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Feel the fear and do it anyway!
I always thought that the thriving would come when everything was perfect, and what I learned is that it's actually down in the mess that things get good. It was such a blessing to find myself...
As many know, the Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for danger, the second the symbol for opportunity.
Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the...
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...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.