I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

– E você, Srta. Bridgerton? Gosta de apostar?– É claro – respondeu ela, surpreendendo-o com a sinceridade. – Mas só quando sei que vou ganhar.

Your thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations initiate and largely determine how you experience your reality.

You've a pretty good nerve, said Ratchett. Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?It will not.If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me.I, also M. Ratchett.Wh...

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.

Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?I don't hate you.Could've fooled me.She folded her cap of invisibility. Look...we're just not supposed to get along, okay? Our parents are rivals.Why?She sig...

Now alongside Scovell, John eased preserved peaches out of galliot pots of syrup and picked husked walnuts from puncheons of salt. He clarified butter and poured it into rye-paste coffins. From the Ma...

Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragran...

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

God alert! Blackjack yelled. It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in a back corner of, the endless maze and t...

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man. When the other krauts saw him drink water in the Beer Hall they should have known he was not to be trusted.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

Instead of showing visibly distinct alternate identities, the typical DID patient presents a polysymptomatic mixture of dissociative and posttraumatic stressdisorder (PTSD) symptoms that are embedded...

when you make numerous mistakes, don't worry. You have numerous lessons of life in your bosom. The most important thing is recognizing, accepting and learning the lessons out of the lessons. just pond...

All people should learn to say as well and "No" as an answer not only "Yes". One moment you will fill your whole life with the stuff which you are accepted.

The time is not there for us to act any more, the time we waited for is here right now for us to act brightly and create a bright future, for the future coming generations.