In general, when a novel manipulates its material to conform to the pieties of the day, or alternatively to attack those pieties for no other reason than the visibility such an attack will generate, when its literary tropes are all too familiar, its ...
There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move...
Again, it's about patterns––you see the pattern, for example, that a young person has moral outrage and is finding effective ways to express it. It's very important that the older generation sees this, feels it, and tastes it. Otherwise they beco...
Kent Mansley: Please, Sir, I've got a feeling about this one. General Rogard: That's nice, Mansley, but let me explain how things are supposed to work. If you had, say, a footprint, I might be able to send over an expert to make a plaster cast of it....
Jon Osterman: Will you smile? If I admit I was wrong? Laurie Juspeczyk: About what? Jon Osterman: Miracles. Events with astronomical odds of occurring, like oxygen turning into gold. I've longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect that in hum...
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
Our life is our only chance...
Our gifts are our weaponry
When we shift our perception, our experience changes.
There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
No, our greatness does not come from our government.
In our dreams we are always young.
We consider all our animals to be our kids.
We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.
Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Women rule our lives, don't they?
And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.
Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.
