Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.
I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.
It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.
Never underestimate the power of a pity fuck, which makes for about ninety percent of women’s collective dating history.
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
Maybe that's why I'd been chosen to become the first female Reaper in history. I think the boys had been losing too many souls.
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. , nothing but mutations.
I really don't even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound.
You can believe history books when they tell you when wars were fought. You just can’t trust them as to why.
Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.
, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one— , the famous —and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
Chez les Tigres noirs du Sri Lanka on entrainait les femmes combatantes qui n'étaient pas vierges à passer une journée avec une grenade dans le vagin. (ch. 2)
What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?
Upon examination of a people’s history, beware the story teller’s motives.
We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for th...
This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to be...
Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.
History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other...
God has been acting honorably throughout history regrading what He wants. We’re the ones at fault. God is good. And I still really, truly like Him
The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.
