Jaredites In Wilderness Quotes & Sayings

ISIS went to school on how we were collecting intelligence on terrorist organizations by using telecommunications technologies. And when they learned that from the [Edward] Snowden disclosures, they were able to adapt to it and essentially go silent. — Michael Morell

I believed myself to be ready then; now, with the hindsight brought by greater age, I see myself for the naive and inexperienced young woman I was. We all begin in such a manner, though. There is no quick route to experience. — Marie Brennan

Fear is a numbing thing when there is no recourse to hope or escape... — William Horwood

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman! — George Meredith

What about the world do you most love?
The fact that I'm not here by myself.
-from interview by Jeff Vandermeer in Clarkesworld magazine — Margo Lanagan

The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos. — Leonard Sweet

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful. — Pat Pattison

Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it's hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don't want to climb off of it. — Keary Taylor

I've been thinking about all the things I might have done differently. All the choices I didn't make. All the decisions that made and unmade me, all the actions and inactions I did or didn't take. With the shades drawn and the garbage overflowing, I've been thinking about all the bold steps I never took, all the gut instincts I didn't listen to, all the people I let down. I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums and wishing I'd shown my work. — Jonathan Evison

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism, and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. — Abraham Lincoln

I'll never forget the first time ... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really important because my email, my contacts, my calendar. Everything is here and it's synced up with that computer. It's synced up with my assistant's computer.' — Randall L. Stephenson

Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys. — Penelope Lively

Eseldorf was a paradise for us boys. We were not overmuch pestered with schooling. Mainly we were trained to be good Christians; to revere the Virgin, the Church, and the saints above everything. Beyond these matters we were not required to know much; and, in fact, not allowed to. Knowledge was not good for the common people, and could make them discontented with the lot which God had appointed for them, and God would not endure discontentment with His plans. — Mark Twain