Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.
Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot du Lac to the Keep of Ganelon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.
There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.
I’ve always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking—by
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
Ill met by moonlight,' said Deirdre.'You could still be tied to a stake,' said Random, and she did not reply.
I took Jack his slippers this evening and lay at his feet before a roaring fire while he smoked his pipe, sipped sherry, and read the newspaper. He read aloud everything involving killings, arsons, mu...
I loved him like a brother - which is to say, not at all.
Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.
Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which we...
The Keeper of Clouds has unpenned his charges.The Keeper of Winds has unlocked his gates.The Keeper of Waters has opened the sky.The Keeper of Lightnings waves his lances.The Keeper of satellites has...
Far below, the ocean was a bluegray rug being pulled out from beneath us.
Collins and Morales represent a segment of society which, if attacked with the weapons society sanctions, one finds buffered by innumerable layers of law, bureaucracy, lies, evasions. They rest secure...
Being a god is the quality of being able to be yourself to such an extent that your passions correspond with the forces of the universe, so that
От важных дел либо очень скоро в тоску впдаешь, либо наталкиваешься на уйму трудностей - всё зависит от того, какую долю ответственности на себя взвалишь.
When there is no real hope we must mint our own. If the coin be counterfeit it still may be passed.
People never pay attention to weather reports; this, I believe, is a constant factor in man's psychological makeup, stemming probably from an ancient distrust of the shaman. You want them to be wrong....
Nothing is cheaper than past glories.
No airplane could make it. Not since the war. None could venture above a couple hundred feet, the place where the winds began. The winds: the mighty winds that circled the globe, tearing off the tops...