The open house makes a good man of the thief.
Willing is a good man, but Able is a better one.
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. ...
You both passed out,” Percy said. “I don’t know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you were…sharing?” “Sharing,” Ella agreed. She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn’t look l...
It's a fact— is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones who often don't know it or don't want to admit it. Here is...
She didn't do anything at all except arrived without warning in the middle of the night (right when I least expected it) She walked by me, with a strut in her step smelling like summer causing me to turn my head (even the leaves swayed her way) All s...
Gnosticism is undeniably pre-Christian, with both Jewish and gentile roots. The wisdom of Solomon already contained Gnostic elements and prototypes for the Jesus of the Gospels...God stops being the Lord of righteous deed and becomes the Good One...A...
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.
In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.
The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.
Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?
[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.
Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.
(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?
what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'" - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1
Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.
I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.
