One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
You did not look for a winner who would take everything; you found a way of allowing people to save face; you found a way of healing rather than imposing.
Were in need of bodywork. It had always amused
When people ask for advice they very rarely want your advice and will go ahead and do what they want to do anyway, no matter what you say. That applied in every sort of case; it was a human truth of u...
We forget, she thought. We think that we were always the way we are now, but we were not. —
Von Igelfeld was not sure. He remembered reading that Hume believed that our minds vibrated in sympathy, and that this ability – to vibrate in unison with one another – was the origin of the ethical i...
They'll go to jail' said the Captain. 'And they'll stay there until Christmas. Then, if they promise to give up piracy and take an honest job somewhere, they may be allowed to go free.
There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them.
The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk. But why, she wondered, should anybody actually want a hunk, when non-hunk...
That’s precisely what I’m saying: in order to become better people, we must practise, Isabel said.
Some people cannot bear news like that. They think they must live forever, and they cry and wail when they realise that their time is coming. I do not feel that, and I did not weep at that news which...
Some of my friends who play rugby talk about Murrayfield Stadium as sacred turf.
So what is this love that comes with being married? ... Being fond of somebody? Being nice? Wanting them not to go away? ... the line struck me with its poetic force. I didn't want you to go away... I...
She had a great respect for books herself, and she wished that she had read more. One could never read enough. Never.
None of us, she thought, wants the world we know to come to an end; we do not want familiar things to be taken from us.
Manfred's interventions, he thought, had all the characteristics of radio jamming, designed to stop anybody else talking.
Loving others, she thought, is the good thing we do in our lives.
Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day.
Like ageism and sexism, lookism was everywhere, resulting in the good-looking getting the best jobs, winning all the plaudits, being let off the most parking tickets by soft-hearted traffic wardens; b...
It was a job that suited Stinger perfectly, as he was always happy when snarling, and snarling at sharks is as snarly a job as anyone can imagine. Of course it was possible that one day he might meet...