The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time
I think you know, Matthew. You have many corners in your heart.
The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.
...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.
Never will you talk to me like that again.
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.
You like them," I realized. Noah's eyebrows lifted in question. "Like as people." "As opposed to...furniture?" "They're my PARENTS." "That is my understanding, yes.
I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari—I mean, dr...
Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.
I'll leave you two alone. Morality might be contagious. -Captain Tagon
Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.
Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.
From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequis...
Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.
It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.
Don't worry about what other people think. Do what makes you happy. Do whatever it takes to make the people in your life happy. Court joy as if it were the air that you needed to breath[e].
The beauty of the human soul Is not the pretty face. It’s found within the heart and hands Of those who look — and stay.
Because the human experience involves loss, we need to feel it, express it, and then release it. Only then do we achieve healing.
