Nothing is just anything.
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are c...
Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
Maybe sometimes we don’t do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don’t want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it’s dangerous. We
Mas o que é melhor, almejar a pureza absoluta e fracassar completamente. ou fazer concessões e ter sucesso, mesmo que parcial?
Like two moths clumsily bumping together, with no more weight than that, their lips touched. Then before they knew how it happened, they were clinging together, blindly pressing their faces towards ea...
Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base.Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. • JOHN RUSKIN
Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act.To be myself, I have to put on an act, Ginny said bitterly.What's that mean?It means I don't know who I am.
Its purpose was to defend democracy in this country, first of all. Then to defend the principles of freedom of thought and expression.
If that was Tom Simms, said Audrey, I’d say he was probably drunk and his mermaid was a porpoise.
I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all
I think we need to tell each other everything we’ve found out. And it’ll take us a good long time, and we might as well keep our hands busy while we’re doing it, so
I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you say, I'll always be thinking about it, and if I end up doing that, I'll feel resentful because it'll...
He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves—the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are, and Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to u...
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympa...
Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. It was a face to be dominated by, or to fight: never a face to patron...
And for most of that time, wisdom has had to work in secret, whispering her words, moving like a spy through the humble places of the world while the courts and palaces are occupied by her enemies.
Всичко ти е ясно, всичко разбираш, но то е толкова дълбоко, че не можеш да се добереш до дъното.
With ambitious aimagainst the throne and monarchy of Godrais’d impious war in Heav’n and battel proud … • JOHN MILTON •
This is a different kind of knowing.… It’s like understanding, I suppose.…