Nobody has control of anything. We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy!
Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.
Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they’d leave me alone.
Keep this in mind - it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.
It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.
It was even before he left Earth that he first thought of it as a planet, like any other, not particularly his own.
Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never decide to cease to exist.
In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's b...
If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another w...
If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.
I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
I'm just saying that I...I regret that everybody else has nineteen chances, and only I am limited to a single chance for my genes to continue.Because you believe your genes would confer a great blessi...
I saw what Andrew did in our family. I saw that he came in and listened and watched and understood who we were, each individual one of us. He tried to discover our need and then supply it. He took res...
I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanation,...
I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will...
He was known by three names. The official records have the first one: Marcos Maria Ribeira. And his official data. Born 1929. Died 1970. Worked in the steel foundry. Perfect safety record. Never arres...
He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
But now, well, he keeps telling me that solitude is the foundation of true wisdom, that all the brilliant thoughts in this house come as the desperate cry of one human being to another, saying, Know m...
But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?