You remind me of the babe.What babe?The babe with the power.What power?The power of voodoo.Who do?You do.
Being happy boils down to three things. Something to do. Someone to love. And something to look forward to.
I did that on purpose,' Lucille Miller told Erwin Sprengle later, 'to save myself from letting my heart do something crazy.
There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the...
My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for...
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
PC or not, Middle Eastern groups, including Abu Nidal's, are not tacticians. They walk into nightclubs strapped with explosives, plant car bombs, spray crowded markets with machine-gun fire, and fly...
Their time was short, so Morrell spoke quickly. It is the stated policy of the United States government never to negotiate with terrorists. We all know it's the nation's first and most important...
Harvath had met and worked with over his years in both the SEALs and the Secret Service. Harvath stood up and started moving toward the front of the cabin.
Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give...
In retrospect this had been my omen, my message, the early snowfall, the birthday present no one else could give me.
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
She glanced again toward Vincent. And who is he again?Vincent grinned. I'm Vincent Blackman of the SpiderSly Company. Mirren and I are going to sleep together; we just have to get through this...
Rome was not built in a day. Likewise a railroad. Or other fun things in this life. - Charles Ingalls
Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt.
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.
Keep this in mind - it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.
We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we "understand." Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a...
But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It...
I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable.
The Earth is deep, and right to the heart it's alive. We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.
Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things.""Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be...
I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them.
Sacramento was the least typical of the Valley towns, and it is-but only because it is bigger and more diverse, only because it has had the rivers and the legislature; its true character remains the...
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent
Still humping the American Dream
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that...
What goes around comes around.
People only do to you what you let them.
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Anna Karenina A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. François...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
