In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

Personal isn't the same as important.

Terry Pratchett

To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.

Paul Darrow

Big mouthfuls often choke.

Italian Proverb

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Flowers are the free throw of love. You're looking for the clutch three-pointer from downtown. Daniel Holloway

Dating Makes You Want to Die:

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.

Robert Shea

the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

C.S. Lewis

I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.

Roger Zelazny

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

Alfred North Whitehead

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Pablo Picasso

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

Edwin Louis Cole