Like that their dreams were set. They promised to push each other, to never settle for anything but the place where their hearts led.

Like that timber wolf on the mountain he had a kind of animal courage. He went his own way with unconcern for consequences that sometimes stunned people, and stuns me now to hear about it. He did not...

Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and fli...

Like the Baron, Mathilde developed a formula for acting out life as a series of roles—that is, by saying to herself in the morning while brushing her blond hair, Today I want to become this or that pe...

Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.

Like the Buddha and Jesus, who knew they couldn’t control our lives, but could infuse lives with their selves, we have been graced with a few people.

Like the Chaldeans, Joseph’s brothers were guilty of sin, sin that they personally had wanted to do. But God stands above all human choices and works through human freedom to bring about His own provi...

Like the Fellowship itself, Tolkien’s philosophy fights. It conquers what George Orwell called the smelly little orthodoxies of political correctness that have twisted and wounded our souls. In other...

Like the French frontier police who thought that some of Picasso’s Cubist drawings were plans of the country’s defenses.

Like the Indian Wars, it would leave a troubled feeling, a trauma, in its wake. Crusades, even when failures, are emotionally satisfying. Wars of containment, wars of policy, are not. They are hard to...

Like the Internet, environmentalism stretches back a long way, yet many people believe Al Gore invented it. There’s no question that Gore’s slideshow-turned-film documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, ga...

Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act.

Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal of a world run by an oligarchy in possession of Teutonic genes, who may kill or enslave other 'race...

Like the Party he had joined too late, too young, Chan was a lost claim check, a series of time lapse photos of a promise as it broke.

Like the Reynolds pamphlet, these clandestine messages signal a further deterioration in Hamilton’s judgment once he no longer worked under Washington’s wise auspices and was left purely to his own de...

Like the Sharyan resistance in general, they weren’t overly imaginative—which in the end proved their downfall when faced with the Envoys—but they weren’t any kind of pushover, either. We’d all develo...

Like the Sun Belt or the Bible Belt, there exists, on this multifarious earth of ours, a Hair Belt.

Like the aristocracy, you can tell a reporter’s status by his clothes and manners. The worse they are, the higher up they are,

Like the bad guy said, never give an artist a Browning; they’re some of the most dangerous folks you can meet… Artists almost always want an audience, the spectacle of destruction. That name — Dadaist...

Like the best character actors, Brennan brought a badly needed realism to the screen, where it served as an antidote to the soft-focus lighting and toupee-topped stars that romanticized movies.