Acorns were good till bread was found.
A bad peace is better than a good quarrel.
One good daughter is worth seven sons.
A bad reaper never gets a good sickle.
Better a good hope than a bad possession.
God is a good worker but He loves to be helped.
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts.
Conscience is the nest where all good is hatched.
To fall off a good horse is at least worthwhile.
Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.
I'm supposed to eat shit with a fork and a knife and say thank you when I'm done swallowing this crap?
When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.
it is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation
We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.
Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).
During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.
As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it.
In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …
You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.
