But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts.
Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.
He recognized and accepted this strange new feeling: that he would rather be hurt himself than hurt Alec.
History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.
Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada? Chicago, though, is the Big Daddy. Not more corrupt, just more theatrical, more colorful in its shadiness.
The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season.
Stirred...the fur-toothed graves of young boys...a thousand slain in the time it would take to do love with a pretty girl or think of a new God.
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks.
When “We’ve always done it that way” is replaced with “Let’s try something new,” associations will leap to greatness.
History will not let us forget: it wears disguises, reintroduces itself to us, claims it is someone new and wonderful. But let us not forget.
Pain is a symphony - a complex response that includes not just a distinct sensation but also motor activity, a change in emotion, a focusing of attention, a brand-new memory.
Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language.
Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart.
It was definitely a new way of life for people who had become so used to being entertained by televisions, computers and technology." -from Day After Disaster
Each day is a new chance to improve your life, and that of your family, friends and colleagues. Be positive in your outlook, honest in your dealing and determined in your efforts. You will succeed
We do not stop. You all took the oath to come here. Hard work lies before us in breeding our new community. - Adrian
Music can elevate man to new heights. Especially elevator music.
To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...
In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.
For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new.
