The Operative: [Speaking on the bridge of his ship] You should have let me see her, Captain. We should have done this as men - not with fire. [Serenity emerges from the clouds... ] The Operative: Vessel in range, lock on. [... and heads straight for ...
Lilac's moving, stirring as I shift away from her, and she rolls over with a little protesting noise, reaching sleepily after me. Then she begins to register the raindrops as they connect with her skin, and she sits up straight with a gasp. I'm busy ...
I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like...
You know the parlor trick. wrap your arms around your own body and from the back it looks like someone is embracing you her hands grasping your shirt her fingernails teasing your neck from the front it is another story you never looked so alone your ...
I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose it didn’t really matter. I even had a theory that time didn’t go in straight line at all. I knew I was no Albert Einstein, but I had the sneaking...
God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.
No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.
A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.
To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.
...there’s few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife.
God determine the appointed time and boundaries of influence for every man.
A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.
An ugly face needs make-up; that's why Man needs religion.
War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.
