Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.
I have a whole guard room full of brawny veterans who'd enjoy a chance to drag two Eddisians out of here, particularly if you kicked a lot and they could kick you back.
Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.
I am very good at groveling.
Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted.
I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected. "Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant. " "Ouch. " "Though very courageous. " "Not me," whispered Eugenides to his pillow.
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
Long before 911 and the war in Iraq, a lot of people hated the United States and the West. But what the Iraqi war seems to have done, at least in. . . I mean, I'm just reporting what I see from the people on the ground, is that it has silenced many pro-American forces in the Muslim world.
To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.
One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.