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The fleet of ships came later, under the command of three madmen – Crust, Urko and Nok – but first to step ashore was none other than Surly and you know who she'd become, don't you?

If I am their god, why don't they listen to anything I say? " "Maybe they are but waiting for you to say the right thing." "Really? And what would that be, you fat oaf?" "Well, whatever it is they want to hear, of course.

Varandas squatted opposite Hood. 'What are you doing?' 'I am ending time' 'No wonder it's taking so long.

He felt his own fear racing through his body, and it was with trembling hands that he read the Eel's message.

Paran flicked his gaze to his weapon, glared back up and around at the warriors, then his eyes returned to Chance. And stayed there.

Your reputation puts civility far down your list of skills, Claw.' 'It's a most cherished trait of mine that sees far too little opportunity for exercise these fell days, Lieutenant.

I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.

You're not responsible for the evil others do," Dad said.

I'd always suspected that the Bill of Rights occasionally had a "liberal" interpretation.

He had no intention whatsoever of sleeping in that house. Why, people could probably drive right up to it!

I BET I CAN guess your favorite math subject in high school. It was geometry.

Do such infinitesimally small things exist in the real world? Quantum mechanics has something to say about that.

Nature—cue the theme from The Twilight Zone—somehow knows calculus.

Grand gestures may be dramatic, but they're rarely practical.

Stories and metaphors are compelling ways to communicate information and change attitudes and behavior.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

Pretty girls kissed me on victory day, their lips soft red petals brushing my face.

The pastor who cares about the spiritual growth of his people must make God and His Word the centerpiece of his ministry.

The doctrines known as Calvinism are not something that emerged late in church history, but rather are that which takes its origins in the teachings of Jesus.1 —James Montgomery Boice

Calvin was not a silver-tongued orator, but a Bible-teaching expositor. Above all else, he desired to bring his people to the Scriptures.

Whitefield was aglow with the glory of God as he proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

This was the chief underlying principle of Calvin's exposition: He was always seeking to discover the "one definite thought" behind what the biblical author wrote. Calvin believed this was the expositor's first duty:

Organic writers are never directionless because we can always work on scenes that fulfill the promises we've made earlier in the story or go back and foreshadow the fulfillment of promises we think of as the story takes shape.

It's not true what they say about things being "only in your head." If it's in your head, it's in you, and you can't escape your thoughts, can't flee their effect on you. Call it psychosomatic if you want, but when thoughts affect your physiology, the problem is never just in your head.