Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.
Sometimes I wake up wanting to tell you to leave everything you claim to hold dear behind and be with me instead, but oftentimes I wake up wanting to tell you to go fuck yourself...
We are philosophers of our timeFloating in the moon's evening glow
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
I wanted to pull away, remind him that I was a big girl, a highly trained operative, a spy - that I'd been training for this mission my entire life, and I wasn't going to be left on the sidelines. But...
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
We're dealing here, said Vimes, With a twisted mind.Oh, no! You think so?Yes.But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with us all the time.Not Nobby, said Vimes testily. Whatever he might do...
The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus was better than Burke when it came to the principle of the French revolution, but Burke did and said...
The fullest account we have of Oannes is found in surviving fragments of the works of a Babylonian priest called Berossos who wrote in the third century BC. [...] Oannes did not do his work alone but...
The first anomalous structure that was discovered at Yonaguni lies below glowering cliffs of the southern shore of the island. Local divers call it Iseki Point ('Monument Point'). Into its south face,...
My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.
He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet's intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the...
He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice.
And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we’ll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
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And so we carried on in our little piece of forever.
It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh.