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He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, said Citizen.Oh my, said Rigg. They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.

What did this portend? He still breathed, the instruments did not change, his heart beat on. But he called to Peter. Did this mean that he longed to live the life of his child of the mind, Young...

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them.

And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we...

{No single} explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile.The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they...

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more...

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

Because here's the thing―we don't give a shit about fairness here. We're soldiers. Soldiers do not give the other guy a sporting chance. Soldiers shoot in the back, lay traps and ambushes, lie to...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take shorthand. Not my last line, stupid! the colonel shouted. Somebody else's. 'Read me back the last line,'...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat

being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see.

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they might be related to one another in ways frowned on by the Old Testament.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. Never mock a tender heart, he said.

There is mystery in everything," Herman whispered, almost to himself. "And so there is poetry in everything. Even something as monstrous as a whale. But how to unlock its poetry.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

Test can't messure what really matters.

Reading a novel is not an exercise in censure.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Well, frankly, if you must know, yes. I do know better. I have the benefit of education and broader experience. And I know firsthand the dangers of industrial society and how it is making the whole...

He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping....

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?