Marriage is a promise. You can’t keep a promise only when it suits you. You have to keep it against your inclination. That’s what it means.
The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent
After the Battle of Midway it was clear that the Pacific war would be won by planes launched from ships. Both Japan and the United States began crash programs to build aircraft carriers as fast as pos...
He had seen - clever, clever boy that he was - that she could not be won by wooing; and he had approached her sidelong, as a friend rather than a lover, meeting her in the woods and telling her storie...
If it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
When you were trying to enforce law and order, it was difficult to explain that the rules did not actually apply to you personally.
I enjoy learning technical details.
A German attack on Russia’s ally France would, in reality, be defensive—but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate Europe.
He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he live...
Little things please little minds.
The small boys came early to the hanging.
To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.
When a man is certain that he knows God’s will, and is resolved to do it regardless of the cost, he is the most dangerous person in the world.
You didn’t ask for a priest. Whether I’ve been good or bad, I don’t think God will be fooled by a last-minute change of heart.
You're the one who doesn't understand, Lev said. In America, I have my own car. There's more food than you can eat, all the booze I want, all the cigarettes I can smoke. I have five suits!What's the p...
But desperate people find courage.
She was wilful, maddening, quarrelsome and intolerant, but somehow these things were trifling: there was a passion inside her that burned like a candle in a lantern, and it lit up his life.
What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.
Don't look so sad, she said. Her eyes were full of tears.I can't help it, he said. I am sad.I'm sorry I've made you so unhappy.Don't be sorry for that. Be sorry that you made me so happy. That's what...
Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. T...
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