Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Who is John Galt?

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say...

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Simon turned to Jordan, who was lying down across the futon, his head propped against one of the woven throw pillows. How much of that did you hear?Enough to gather that we're going to a party tonight...

She batted her eyelashes & readjusted her shackles as if they were lace gloves.

Musel jsem se dívat na průzory do plynových komor a sám sledovat proces smrti... Znovu a znovu se mě ptali, jak se já a moji lidé na tyto operace můžeme nepřetržitě dívat a jak jsme schopni to vydržet...

Mirnin: Where's Shreve?

Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five.

Killed? said Hagrid loudly, staring down at Harry. Snape killed? What're yeh on abou', Harry?Dumbledore, said Harry. Snape killed... Dumbledore.

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run....

I may some day get a boyfriend and eventually a husband, but you will always be my first loves. -Sheetal, 14, Qatar

HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn't know.HAMM:What? What didn't you know?NAGG:That it'd be you.(Pause.)

Grover Underwood of the satyrs! Dionysus called.Grover came forward nervously.Oh, stop chewing your shirt, Dionysus chided. Honestly, I'm not going to blast you. For your bravery and sacrifice, blah,...

Even in former days, Korea was known as the 'hermit kingdom' for its stubborn resistance to outsiders. And if you wanted to create a totally isolated and hermetic society, northern Korea in the years...

Earning Trust & CooperationThe number one thing which stands between you and meeting a new person is tension. What is the number one thing which stands between a sales person and their prospect? You g...

And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about that, even as she thwarts her own insight by insisting that it i...

But in the depths of their hearts, in that true and ultimate depth which is revealed to no one, there remained the memory of what had taken place and the consciousness that was has once been can be ag...