Darkover Miniature Quotes & Sayings

Afraid

We cry among the skyscrapers
As our ancestors
Cried among the palms in Africa
Because we are alone,
It is night,
And we're afraid. — Langston Hughes

[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it. — Daniel Quinn

This feeling of being in proximity to something that's lost to you, it seems like my whole life right now. — Adam Johnson

I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness."
"Some things last."
I faced him. "Really? And just what would that be?"
"The things that matter. — Mary E. Pearson

We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of peace after the fighting is over has always been a
difficult task. — Harry S. Truman

To survive a family must present an unbroken front to the world. — Margaret Mitchell

There are never enough 'I love you's. — Lenny Bruce

He couldn't say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he'd learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she'd knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. It's fixed. As long as you don't mind more than a few scars. — Nalini Singh

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. — W.E.B. Du Bois

There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It is the look a woman would wear - would have worn - if she asked a man, a stranger, say, to dance. — Ahdaf Soueif

Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way ... Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.' — James Hillman