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We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.
Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let your sweetest personality shine.
It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.
Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.
I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.
Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.
A face isn't an organ, like a liver or a heart. A face is muscles, nerves, bones, and skin. A face is more like a hand or a foot.
The ESPN complex is a 255-acre playland, as beautiful and perfect as the Magic Kingdom itself down the road - except it's sports!
When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.
Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.
History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.
I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.
There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.
Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite, All are on their rounds tonight; In the wan moon's silver ray, Thrives their helter-skelter play.
Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it. Home is where the heart pulled the nails out of its feet, and fled.
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.
How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?
Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.
Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.
Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.
My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.
With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.
I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist.
I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.
But nobody ever tells you in advance when you should concentrate on the good times-that's why you're supposed to do it every day.
It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.
If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.
[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Gratitude causes us to no longer desire a different life. Instead, it causes us to make the most of the one life we already have.