Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not? - S.M. Stirling
The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?
- S.M. Stirling
Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable. - S.M. Stirling
Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.
Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awf… - S.M. Stirling
Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awf…
Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people. - S.M. Stirling
Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.
Nothing's free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money. - S.M. Stirling
Nothing's free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.
Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal. - S.M. Stirling
Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it? - S.M. Stirling
Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?
Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even… - S.M. Stirling
Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even…
I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers. - S.M. Stirling
I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.
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