She scrambled to her feet, uncaring that a stray knee and elbow had Erik wincing. “How can you be groaning about a simple knee to the groin when you’ve just been battered by flying furniture, candelabras and hit on the head by a pot plant that mu...
The will to truth is enshrined in the mind. It is undeniable, inescapable, mutable only if one’s humanity itself is rejected, itself muted. Yet the form of this truth, whether it be elaborate, simple, exclusive and regulatory or comprehensive and p...
Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if your ambitions included being an absolute ruler tomorrow. There were subtleties. Oh, you could order men to smash down doors and drag people off the dun...
Sitti knows that modern-day wars are fought over simple things, like the length and fit of a shirt—the shorter the sleeve, the greater the misfortune. Many times she wants to ask the one-hundred-year-old fig tree in the village center what it is li...
For several thousand years man has been in contact with animals whose character and habits have been deformed by domestication. He has ended by believing that he understands them. All he means by this is that he is able to rely on certain reflex acti...
For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken. Like most things, of course, it ...
Music escapes ideological characterization. Just as there are some social scientists who believe that what cannot be measured does not truly exist, and some psychologists used to believe that consciousness does not exist because it cannot be observed...
If only either of us knew the challenges a simple word like forever could bring.
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
The past and future are what’s complicated. It’s the present that’s simple.
People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.
Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.
I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.
I didn't answer, but, please—nothing is obvious with boys. For such simple creatures, they are quite baffling.
The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.
Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we’ve got.
The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.
Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind
As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.
