Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

Looking to that future, there is every reason to believe that science and religion will both continue to flourish, to enlighten, to inspire; as well as to frustrate, to obfuscate, and to oppress. Some people may wish that one half of this essentiall...

Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts,...

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

The men her girlfriends dated were too often angry and muttering about oppression. One of the reasons she took to Skeet later in life was that he never went to that place; he believed with a firm positivity that he didn't need to waste time resenting...

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms - human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to choose in many spheres. On the other hand, many of it...

Theology: A Very Short Introduction

The word 'proof' should strictly only be used when we are dealing with deductive inferences.... Popper claimed that scientists only need to use deductive inferences.... So if a scientist is only interested in demonstrating that a given theory is fals...

Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long – he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce s...

On the Shortness of Life

Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"--that planted too stimulating an image--b...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Hence to be happy is nothing but not to be in need, that is, to be wise. But if you seek what wisdom is, reason has already explained and declared this as far as presently possible. For wisdom is nothing but the measure of the soul, that is, that by ...

The Happy Life

Because bread was so important, the laws governing its purity were strict and the punishment severe. A baker who cheated his customers could be fined £10 per loaf sold, or made to do a month's hard labor in prison. For a time, transportation to Aust...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

ive lived so long a person, they tamed me to be, I spoke with care & held back the real, me. But the time has come, My voice will be heard. My messages are clear & I'm not the same girl. I am wild, my heart is rare I am untameable and I dont fuckin' ...

Nikki Rowe

Art is not in some far-off place.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

And in blessing him I was blessed, And in comforting him I was comforted…

Daystar Rising: A Story of the First Christmas

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

For me, adoption was grief in reverse.

The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby

It's not your fault you had an unwanted dick in you.

Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict

Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves.

Guardian of the Dead

The ink in the pen that writes success stories is "FOCUS"...

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Guys and Dolls: The Stories of Damon Runyon

Saat buah persik tengah matang, tak ada yang meninggalkan pasar tanpa membeli satu.

Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment

Namun guru yang paling baik adalah yang mengajar tanpa bicara apa-apa

Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment