Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men

Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take...

So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature,...

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

She browsed many a shop for just the right gown. The dressmaker had started it for another woman, who had decided she did not want it after all. A few alterations were all it needed.And it was exquisi...

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, writes it, builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it,

Marvelous, she said. Tell me about this tapestry.Arachne’s lips curled over her mandibles. Why do you care? You're about to die.Well, yes, Annabeth said. But the way you captured the light is amazing....

Looking down on their glossy heads, I realized that they were indeed threatened; they were simply unaware of it. We are all vulnerable.

La commedia è una tragedia che capita agli altri.

It’s an inconvenience, true enough, and I don’t like it at all, but I know that you do it for everyone, Mister Death. Is there any other way?’NO, THERE ISN’T, I’M AFRAID. WE ARE ALL FLOATING IN THE WI...

It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the c...

It is your duty to save these prospects from that disappointment. Every potential customer, who misses out on what you have to offer, due to your lack of zeal or passion, every prospect who ends up wi...

If you want to sing, sing like today is your last.If you want to dance, dance like today is your last.If you want to laugh, laugh like today is your last.If birds sing without worrying about who is li...

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn as brightly for her as I wish, and for a shorter time, than to burden her with someone only half-alive for a longer...

I PUT ON a skirt and blouse for the meeting, feeling dwarfy, my grown-up, big-girl clothes never quite fitting. I’m barely five foot—four foot, ten inches in truth, but I round up. Sue me. I’m thirty-...

His alarm clock ticked by the head of the bed. He gazed at its whitish face, the hands both drawing downward. There were no clocks, there. There were no hours. It was not the river of time flowing tha...

He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy . . . who had left upon every field of victory in Europe drops of that same blood which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown grey before his time in...

Grand strategy is about marrying ends to means, about doing what you can, consistent with the nation's capabilities and resources.