What materials do you like best?...
- So turn around quickly and tell me everything about yourself!...
The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.
Yes, damn it, I love you! But the bedroom is not the boardroom, Robert. In the boardroom only one person can be in charge.
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...
I believe I'm very happy.
Isn't a beautiful dream better than a cruel reality?
-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...
Man-like, said Miss Cornelia
You're bigger than I remember, she said stupidly.You too, he said. I also remember that you were beautiful.Memory does play tricks on us.No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful...
Western things stop being so by repetition
One never quite stops believing,' said the Marquis. 'Some doubt remains forever.' Abrenuncio understood. He had always thought that ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's...
Don't tell me you're passionate about your job – show me that you're passionate about helping people like me.
Conrad had gotten his ambassadorship by being a big bundler and raising a lot of money for the previous president. He reminded Harvath of Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. In addition to being a...
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -George Orwell
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.
Imagine to stay until I witness the demise of my world. People go to men and women, and keep a stranger among strangers, flee from place to place, I want eternal chases, crazy, I wish death ...
Are the hopes of today as lost yesterday?
Soon the memories were withheld the whole.
There I realized that she is a pleasure and joy and that she is my spiritual and my life, and that the world without a sorter is not equal to an atom of ashes.
microbial resistance to antibiotics…
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...
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...
When you harm a woman, you harm the whole world.
Mary never made it to the board meeting. Cunning Elizabeth simply arranged for her cousin's tennis instructor to "delay" her for an hour or two. The man was evidently a superb athlete, though it was...
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.
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...
Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and...
Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone. Chapter 3, pg 1 - Ender's Game
In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action.
Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they...
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....
