This verse just came to my mind yesterday while sitting in the train...‘Pursue … overtake … and … recover all.’1 Samuel 30:8When King David and his men returned home from battle, they discovered that...

So you speak French? Isabelle sighed. I wish I spoke another language. But Hodge never thought we needed to learn anything but ancient Greek and Latin, and nobody speaks those. I also speak Russian an...

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poison...

Um, Doc said in a mild voice, medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful thing for his condition.But I feel better, Jared answered, sullen.Doc smiled the tiniest smile. Well, maybe a f...

We are whole

Tell me, do you have family near? Miss Addie asked. I’m an orphan, Theta said. You’re wrong. The old woman blinked up at the ceiling, her fingers waving in the air. You do have family. I see it in you...

That's us, he said. Those five nuts right there.Which one is me? I asked.The little deformed one, Zoe suggested.Oh, shut up.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

The detective story, as created by Poe, is something as specialised and as intellectual as a chess problem, whereas the best English detective fiction has relied less on the beauty of the mathematical...

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.

One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour.

I believe what you believe and you believe what you believe and we'll agree to disagree. It's liberal tolerance meets dark ages denialism. It's very hip right now.

People who LIKE movies have a favorite. People who LOVE movies couldn't possibly choose.

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine....

Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not...

During my five years on Mauna Kea, workers routinely displayed the symptoms of Cerebral Hypoxia

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

On 'Check Your Head' and 'Ill Communication,' most of the lyrics are much more, 'OK, you take that, and I'll say that' - they're split up.