The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.
The old Soviet culture also left its former citizens oddly prepared for Wall Street in the early twenty-first century. The Soviet-controlled economy was horrible and complicated but riddled with...
Yes, damn it, I love you! But the bedroom is not the boardroom, Robert. In the boardroom only one person can be in charge.
Man-like, said Miss Cornelia
Don't tell me you're passionate about your job – show me that you're passionate about helping people like me.
The patients there were mostly teenaged girls, with the occasional boy. I thought of us all as tigers with thorns in our paws. We were beautiful beasts who'd gotten injured by life, by loss or trauma...
Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinion about the things.
Are the hopes of today as lost yesterday?
Isn't a beautiful dream better than a cruel reality?
All the birds took their shape from the fire. Thought also has its origin in fire. Tongues of fire speak words as cold and exact as the warmest truth that lips can hold. Remember that words can create...
Swords. That is no faenorn ; that is slaughter. The Grand Seneschal shrugged. The Master did not protest. And, indeed, what weapon could he have suggested that would suit him any better? Fire, she...
Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.
In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action.
The current almost hysterical concern for security is at best a waste of resources and an obstacle to the human spirit, and in the worst case an invitation to totalitarianism. Public education is...
The first thing Harvath removed was a sand-colored, modified Palafox 9mm SIG Sauer P226 pistol. It had bright green TRUGLO Tritium/Fiber-Optic Day/Night sights that allowed for fast target acquisition...
He carried no electronics. No laptop, no cell phone, no walkie-talkie. He carried no ID. Beside his large-caliber Glock, spare magazines, and a knife, there was nothing on his person that could...
Happiness in life is all about three things-something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.
You should never hate anyone, not even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You had to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
here where we pay soothsayers and acrobats to help lose our weight
God's curse on emotions, false and honest alike !!
There is no calamity that is more so much that one house brings you to you forever.
Beliefs have tyranny even over those who reject them.
If you take God out of it, then right and justice become small, human things. And weak things too.
-Life always offers us two possibilities: day and night; the eagle or the snake, construction or destruction, punishment or forgiveness, but there is always a third hidden possibility that unifies the...
Mama Elena thought that the word mom sounded derogatory, so she forced her daughters from childhood to use the word "mommy" when they addressed her.
The story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh air-until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the...
The harp player had just fallen off the stage and cracked his head on an Italian tourist's pint. There was a big cheer, and Con the barman rang a bell on the counter.
You may have enslaved our bodies, but our hearts and minds will always be free!
Friendship is the greatest gift one can give to another.
Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?"Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could...
As I recall, St. Paul stood by and held the coats of the men who were stoning him {Stephen}. Apparently he wasn't a believer at the time. In fact, I think he was regarded as the most terrible enemy of...
She likes us, said Umbo. I know, I could feel it too, said Rigg. She's really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children. Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew. They were...
The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.
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....
