All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.
Mtu aliyepoteza kazi na mke na watoto wake kuuwawa kwa mfano, watu wanapaswa kuwa makini na yeye, ana uwezo wa kufanya chochote.
Without question, I wake every night five times.
Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?
John Christensen: ...and, of course, everyone knows fun rules.
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.
The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.
No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.
You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.
Dragons weep, Shadows leaps, King sleeps. Dragon takes, Shadows breaks, King wakes.
I only wake to fall asleep And sleep, to awake without end.
She closed her eyes briefly, feeling sick. Olivia had experienced strangulation before. Having to look directly into the face of the person who was killing you made the experience beyond awful. But there were worse things than that. Staring into the ...
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She told us about the goddess called Persephone, who was forced to spend half a year in the darkness deep underground. Winter happened when she was trapped inside the earth. The days shrank, they became cold and short and dark. Living things hid them...
He remembered the old-timers from his navy days. Grizzled lifers who could soundly sleep while two meters away their shipmates played a raucous game of poker or watched the vids with the volume all the way up. Back then he'd assumed it was just learn...
