We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake.A habit.
We spend our lives guessing at what’s going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we understand. Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a wo...
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 is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will teach you how to destroy and conquer.
Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister.'Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And when he was dead, I didn't know it will kill Valentine too.
The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.
The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any p...
The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad ending
The humans build their stupid fence to keep us out, but that is nothing. The sky is our fence! Human leapt upward—startlingly high, for his legs were powerful. Look how the fence throws me back down t...
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.
That is the Earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of the hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upward f...
Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.
So I want to ask you a hypothetical question.My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
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...
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the for...
She likes us, said Umbo. I know, I could feel it too, said Rigg. She’s really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children. Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew. They were de...
See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet.
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don...