One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
If we climb this high I swear we'll never die.
We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.
Memory of the knife will be gone when the flesh is gone.
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.
You don't even know where I'm going.I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.
They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?Probably better, Lancelot said. Certainly safer.
The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.
The Western States nervous under the beginning change.Texas and Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas, New Mexico,Arizona, California. A single family moved from the land.Pa borrowed money from the bank, and...
The Lord in his wisdom gave money to very curious people, perhaps because they'd starve without. -Liza
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted...
Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that.
At the roadsides I never had a really good dinner or a really bad breakfast.
And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more. They knew the...
Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane, he [Ed Ricketts] said. And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not think of following, speak truths they do not believe. And yet...
A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were goo...
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those trait...