But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.
Theirs was a long, complicated story with a monster and a knight. What made their story unique was that these two players were the same person.
mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another.
Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.
At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them, reaching as far as the stars. And the footsteps of invisible passers-by, whose course I had no wish to guess at, the wind that kept on...
Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.
There may be obstacles, but money is not one," the Iranian said. "Good. Money is usually an obstacle if you don't have it.
The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless of their weight and orientation.
Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by...
Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
We all have our alloted portions of black and white paint; how we lay it on is a question of temperament.
Another thing about pain - it renders you incapable of bullshit.
They say time heals all wounds. I am still waiting…
I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and that this was probably a semiconscious tactic meant to evade confronting certain agonizing life events which were probably not resolvable and were desti...
People live their lives thinking that they are forgotten, and that is why we do the most outrageous things, so as not to go unnoticed
If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.
