I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.
Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf.
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
Some things are to hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.
The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.
No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see.
We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines.
To think of enduring to the end as ‘hanging in there,’ doing one’s duty relentlessly, is not inaccurate. Yet enduring to the end is more than outlasting and surviving, though it includes those qualities. We are called upon, as was the Prophet Joseph, to ‘endure it well,’ gracefully, not grudgingly. (D&C 121:8. ) We are also told that we must ‘endure in faith. ’ (D&C 101:35. ) These dimensions of enduring are important to note. Likewise, we are asked to endure ‘valiantly. ’ (D&C 121:29. )