This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine...
There was some enthusiasm for a Caliban village, but it quickly dissipated when people contemplated a future village school and what the mascot might look like.
There are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause.
The ways of love are strange and hard:The love you want is always barred;The love you have you want to change.The ways of love are hard and strange.
The warmth of mutual respect...Not the heat of anger or the ice of hate.
The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not,
The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably should...
The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.
The Nordic language recognizes four orders of foreignness. The first is the otherlander, or utlänning, the stranger that we recognize as being a human of our world, but of another city or country. The...
That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to...
Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.
Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have t...
So he believed. Believed, but the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more car...
Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things.Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot...
Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won
Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.
She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence of a person who never speaks.
See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet.
Running was the way he dreamed. Having never been in control of his life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free. He dreamed of being at the mercy of the wind, carried aloft and blown here and t...