Men and women are never placed too far apart to be near.
By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
I am obviously not a patient person.
I'm going to stay a little uptight and anxious.
But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.
When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.
But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.
Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.
I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.
We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.
I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.
Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.
Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.
You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.
Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.
The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.
[last lines] Capt. Jack Aubrey: Well, Stephen... the bird's flightless? Dr. Stephen Maturin: Yes. Capt. Jack Aubrey: It's not going anywhere.
