The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.
Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.
If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.
I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.
I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.
I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.
Lots of women don't realize that they're gay until they're grown up.
Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. ‘He might tell me how my story ends,’ he murmured. Meggie looked at him in astonishment. ‘You mean you don’t know?’ Dustfinger smiled. Meggie still didn’t particularly like his smile. It seemed to appear only to hide something else. ‘What’s so unusual about that, princess?’ he asked quietly. ‘Do you know how your story ends?’ Meggie had no answer for that.
A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.