What happened to your tan?--FangIt was dirt. --Max

That’s how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.

To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself.

Tucker finally parked next to me. We joined Cooper who stared at a hawk flying over the woods. I’ve had my eye on you since the Devils came to town, Cooper said, glancing at me. Ignore the romantic vi...

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

Very possibly this was the night my white-knight complex, as Solange put it, would get me killed. Someone had better write a poem about it. It was only fair.

We Lannisters do have a certain pride, said Tyrion Lannister.Pride? Catelyn snapped. His mocking tone and easy manner made her angry. Arrogance, some might call it. Arrogance and avarice and lust for...

The latter part of our Journey from the entrance of Wiltshire into Salisbury was very rough and abounded with Jolts, the Holes we were obliged to go through being very many and some of them Deep; and...

The print was an old one made from a negative taken in the 1960’s of her parents in Sydney Mines, dancing with thrilled, excited expressions on their faces, in front of a classic car that had been a w...

The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the first to realize just how big that planet was.

The reason shadow histories remained in the shadows lay in the centralization of information: If an idea wasn't discussed on one of three major networks or on the pages of a major daily newspaper or n...

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.

This tiger is sprawledSo still and so flat,A question arisesWhen glancing thereat.Is he asleep? to bePerfectly frank,He looks more as ifHe was creamed by a tank!

Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.

Thus Milton refines the question down to a matter of faith, said Coleridge, bringing the lecture to a close, and a kind of faith more independent, autonomous - more truly strong, as a matter of fact -...

Thus we use our supposed knowledge of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?

You don’t give up on democracy every time you lose a vote, Ethel said crisply.

You toyed with her heart. I know what that’s like. I can have compassion for her because of that.I met you first, he whispered.That doesn’t give you license to be cruel.

When I was reaching out to those young men through Strachan’s Corner, nobody told me what to do, I was doing it from my heart. I did what I thought was best rather than giving those youngsters a polic...