A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

Henry Austin Dobson

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.

Jane Austen

Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last.

Edgar Allan Poe

Get it straight. Your boy you lose. Love you lose. Honor has been gone for a long time. Duty you do. Sure and what's your duty? What I said I'd do. And all the other things you said you'd do?

Ernest Hemingway

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Francis Bacon

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

Orson Scott Card

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Gustave Flaubert

Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face 'wind of sorrow'; flex little harder to dance in the 'wind of happiness'.

Santosh Kalwar

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

Jim Ramstad

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

George Farquhar

It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Janet Guthrie

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones