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There was a Sabbath lull in the air, which, in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences, looked ominous.

I think Poe's quite good, actually. The whole casual horror thing. Like someone standing next to you and screaming their head off and you asking them what the fuck and them stopping for a moment to say 'Oh you know, I'm just afraid of death' and then they keep on with the screaming.

Annie qualified as being far more interesting than his planned house-rewiring project. Probably more dangerous, too.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

Any frontal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession: their ignorance

I have to say it all sounds pretty improbable," said Björk. "We live in an improbable world," said Wallander.

There was something in Björk's behavior that was typical of the peasant's awe of those in power.

Ya Ru's father had drowned in the big political tidal wave that Mao had set in motion.

fighting crime is simply a question of endurance; about which side can outlast the other.

There are evil circumstances and environments, not evil per se. But here I sense the actions of a truly darkened mind. Wallander reached for Svedberg's pocket calendar

Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.

Our primary task in solitude, therefore, is not to pay undue attention to the many faces which assail us, but to keep the eyes of our mind and heart on him who is our divine savior.

It seems indeed that the Church today is one of the few institutions in the world willing to defend human rights regardless of who the oppressor is.

General Grant seriously remarked to a particularly bright young woman that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained.

He betrayed the consciousness that he and his people had a past, if they dared but avow it, and might have a future, if they could but divine it.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?

I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body—has a spirit—is organic—and fluid to the influence of its spirit—and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me

The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.