It is that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation ceases to believe that they can win a war, that war is lost.
Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.
The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue.This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day.I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray...
I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.
The Blue Beetle was not a clown car, I said severely. It was a machine of justice.
No, she said. You are not Patrick Swayze. I am not Demi Moore. She touched a switch on the little box and it started ticking. And this sure as hell isn't pottery class.
What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be?
I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.
You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it.
It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
Injun Joe studied the body for a moment, his eyes sad. Then he said, I'd rather go in my sleep, I think. He glanced back at me. What about you?I want to be stepped on by an elephant while having sex w...
You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.
For a second, I wanted very badly to know a spell that would let me melt through the floor in a quivering puddle of please-don't-kill-me.
Do you really think you can win?''Yeah. Hell, Ortega is only the third or fourth most disturbing thing I've tangled with today.''But even if you do win, what does it change?''Me getting kiilled now. T...
Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.
Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear no often enough.
Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.
My doubts vanished as well. Doubt was for things that did not know their purpose, and I knew mine.
When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic, I said. When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.
God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, b...
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