Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? Dor said. It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.He lowered his...
Sure, there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.
I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them.
And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? Ah he smiled. A happiness you cannot find alone
You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we dont know everything. And since we dont know everything, we must accept that another...
That's the moon,' I said. 'Gran likes it like that,' said Lettie Hempstock. 'But it was a crescent moon yesterday. And now it's full. And it was raining. It is raining. But now it's not.' 'Gran likes...
Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards against tinsel thread and garlands of metallic filaments...
When ambition exceeds ability, you are going to experience hardship. We have the choice to fear it or embrace it.
Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.
Sometimes, You need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and who you want to be.
However ordinary each of us may seem, we are all in some way special, and can do things that are extraordinary, perhaps until then…even thought impossible.
life is feeling and logic...
It's like saying you're fixed in the past, and you're running out of time. Every moment is only the beginning of something new
Your imagination is the key to the door of freedom
It's not money which will make your life meaningful. It's life which will make your money meaningful.
Dream those dreams you can only dream. Reach for the heavens that call to you and do not be afraid to stare into the sun or walk boldly into darkness. This is a guide toward your greatest journey....
We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.
What counts that we're not counting?
The problem of political theory is how to combine that degree of individual initiative which is necessary for progress, with the degree of social cohesion which is necessary for survival.
When we understand the illusory nature of life and the profound power of eternal love, which enables us to create miracles and experience the presence of our deceased loved ones, we find ourselves...
You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God {or Satan} is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to...
There are two approaches to the study of macroscopic physics. Historically the oldest approach, developed mainly in the first half of the 19th century by such men as Carnot, Clausius, William Thomson...
The question is, of course, is it going to be possible to amalgamate everything, and merely discover that this world represents different aspects of one thing?
We were making good time now, barrelling through the bodacious curves of southeastern Utah and ignoring all impending signs of trouble with the van. At least I was."You guys happy?" I said.The kids...
Later that evening I lay down in Min's empty bed upstairs and pulled her white sheet up over my head. I felt for my kneecaps and hip bones. I lay perfectly still, arms down, palms up. I closed my eyes...
When we got back to the house Logan grabbed his basketball, threw it really hard against the hallway wall, knocked the framed family photo to the floor-it didn't break, he didn't pick it up-and left...
Maybe she was enjoying a moment in her life, a sliver of light, a flash memory of one of her kids, something sweet and approaching reality.
The guy's name was Colt.Colt, said Thebes. Like a baby, male horse?I guess, said the guy, or a gun.Well, which do you prefer? she said.What do you mean? he asked.Like, how do you prefer to think of...
I couldn't see him but I could hear him snoring softly, humming, like a little airplane lost in the clouds.
She was a strange, unsettled planet that had had once sustained life. She was a language that I had thought I almost understood even though I couldn't speak it. She hadn't always been this way. She...
If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.
Conversing with children is a fine art... . An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.
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....
