Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other...
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.
We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Albert Einstein wrote, 'A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from...
Every Man has the Right to make a Kite from his Pants.
You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
And, age is not a competitive issue.
And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we'r'e that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.
He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.
Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that...
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but...
If this world were an infinite plan and sailing to the East we could always reach new distances and discover sweeter and newer things than all the cyclades or the islands of King Solomon, then the...
I've long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous...
Irigaray remarks in such a vein that "the masquerade... is what women do... in order to participate in man's desire, but at the cost of giving up their own".
you did not look for a winner who would take everything; you found a way of allowing people to save face; you found a way of healing rather than imposing.
Being loved and admired by a man like that-and she knew that this man, this mechanic, this fixer of machines with their broken hearts, did indeed love and admire her-was like walking in the sunshine;...
the end of the world as they knew it.
A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business....
it seemed like a great adventure, at least at the start.
Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important...
He did what he thought was right
{Ruthie} ... if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?
A real god doesn't care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.
Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.
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...
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...
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....
