1846Сред мореплавателите има такива, които откриват нови светове, прибавят земи към земята и звезди към звездите: те са властелините, великите мъже, нетленно прекрасните. Други бълват ужас от корабнит...
The complications of life do not end at the altar; some might say that this is where they begin.
How time first grounds us and then confounds us....give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.
As for knowing your own mind, this seemed a bewildering process. How could you know your own mind without using your mind to discover your mind in the first place?
Juries should ask not Is he guilty? but rather Is he dangerous?
ظاهراً غریزه اش خوب کار میکرد : من آدمی بودم که باید به او پشت کرد. اگر زندگی سزای عمل را میدهد، من سزاوار اجتناب بودم...
جایی خوانده بودم اگر میخواهید مردم به آنچه میگویید توجه کنند، صدایتان را بلند نکنید، بلکه آرام حرف بزنید.
Those photographs taken from lunar orbit, in which our planet looks more or less like any other planet (except to an astronomer): silent, revolving, beautiful, dead, irrelevant.
The liver of the bear is poisonous – the only part of any quadruped known to be so.
Strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.
Specific fund, you see. It’s a sort of general fund. Because at some point everyone wants to run away from their life. It’s about the only thing human beings have in common.
My desire to ascribe responsibility might be more a reflection of my own cast of mind than a fair analysis of what happened, like the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to...
Few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty. If I can’t be sure of the actual events any more, I can at least be true to the impre...
Every relationship contains within it the ghosts, or the shadows, of all the other relationships it isn’t. All the abandoned alternatives, the forgotten choices, the lives you could have led but didn’...
El problema de vivir más allá de tu mejor tiempo vital, más allá del punto en que la vida ya no reporta alegría, sino tan sólo desilusión y sucesos horribles.
You would think, wouldn’t you, that if you were the childof a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better thanaverage marriage yourself – either through some geneticinheritance or because you’d le...
You remembered your past in cheerful terms because this validated your existence. You didn’t have to see your life as any kind of triumph – his own had hardly been that – but you did need to tell your...
You only had to look at Noah and his wife, or at their three sons and their three wives, to realize what a genetically messy lot the human race would turn out to be.
You like this stuff?' she asked neutrally. 'Good to dance to,' I replied, a little defensively. 'Do you dance to it? Here? In your room? By yourself?' 'No, not really.' Though of course I did.
Y no obstante, a pesar de todo esto, a pesar de que no tenía rival en la descripción de tiranos hundidos en sangre hasta las rodillas, Shakespeare era un poco ingenuo. Porque sus monstruos tenían duda...