470 quotes found
“Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.”
“It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.”
“Identity politics is killings free speech on campus, silencing Muslim women struggle, boosting both Islamism and the far Right and pushing reconciled Muslim voices to the fringes. It makes implicit...”
“I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.”
“I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not...”
“oh love, doesnt the fact that the world is so big,laid out like ripe fruitmake you want to stay?”
“I'm afraid even ImpSec has no explanation for women's tastes in men.”
“Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.”
“Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.”
“Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. "I wanted something more and he was it. We both had big dreams." "That must have taken a lot of courage,...”
“The wisest use of these skills is to develop habits, lives, and loves, not to use them just occasionally in single interactions.”
“If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then the other person will almost join you in a dialogue.”
“She stood on the edge of tomorrow, a one person vanguard that believe. The city would soon follow her lead.”
“Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.”
“Real destiny takes everythingthe last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sureand gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I...”
“At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.”
“When we are passionate about God, we can trust our passions.”
“In fact, I dont understand religion at all and as far as I can see the only thing it does is hasten the slaughter of people who generally seem to be minding their own business.”
“Most of us are still in some small way victims of the Industrial Revolution. Whether through our grandparents, our parents, or our own experience, we were raised to believe that our place in life r...”
“In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say th...”
