The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
From what we've heard about George W. , he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.
Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
What do I tell the pilots to do?
Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.
The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.
If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.
Tell me a story then. . . keep me occupied. " "A story?. . . What makes you think I can tell a story?" "Insight," said the king, "Go on.