History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.

Be Patient to become a Patent

Watching him, his hands buried in his pockets—to keep from circling her neck she supposed—she couldn’t help but marvel at the curious mix of Southern courtesy and male arrogance, the natural assumption he shouldered of being lawfully in control. “Engaging in a moral battle isn’t always hazardous to one’s health, you know.””Doesn’t look like it’s...

his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by the victors…Now, with the help of the Roman historian Tacitus, I shall tell you Queen Boudicca’s story, her-story……

Love’s stories written in love’s richest books.To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

You are an exceedingly beautiful mystery, one that intrigues me and one that I plan to solve.

He’d do what was best for her. He’d take her to safety and send her back home to a bright future…with a more honorable man than him. The stick broke in his hand, and he muttered an oath. All he wanted was for Amelia to be safe and happy, dammit. That and to beat every...

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity?

I did not know English women were so strong.

He knew what he had found here, a precious treasure that had remained hidden away for so long. To the right man, she could give more happiness and fulfilment than any amount of gold, or gems. Just by holding her in his arms, he knew this. He had the key to her heart in his...

219Take up and read, take up and read.

Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For...

I have been up too congress, and they do not seem to do anything except eat peanuts and chew tobacco while my army is starving…..

There’s a saying,” Aeneas said: “Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts.” He spoke wryly. “Horses, particularly.

[A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades–no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was that Jews somewhere were going to suffer.

The momentary darkness gave way to scores of small glowing lights. Blaise stepped into a candlelit room filled with people and furniture. ‘Where are we?” he asked Livia. “How can a whole other room be here? There were only two rooms on the top floor.

Love should never be a game.

The marine underworld stretched below the ship and embodied many secrets. The disappearance of Olga had become one of the mysteries that would remain with Stefania and her family. The disappearance of her baby sister and sudden departure from her home had taught the ten-year-old that life was filled with uncertainties. But she was willing...

A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar!

Her nerves licked her palms.

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves.

…and I want you all to remember-that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the great gift our country hungers for, something every...

Dying a thousand deaths in my head to protect you is better than losing you one time in the flesh.”~ Gustaf Ræliksen

The New Testament is not a historical document.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Agony’s PlotA zephyr skimmedacross my creamy skingently kissingwhere the sun had been….

The worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another.”Katie O’Reilly to the Countess of Marbury in “Titanic Rhapsody

Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels.” Titanic Rhapsody

He lowered his voice. “You are a true shield-maiden; you do not turn from a scar on a man’s face.”I looked at him and did not lower my eyes. “My father was an ealdorman, and his brother ealdorman after him. He taught me that a scar is the badge of honour of the warrior, and...

Slow down,’ he said, ‘so I can see how you do it,’ but she’d laughed and said, ‘I can’t slow down, if I stopped to think how I was doing it I couldn’t do it at all.

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

I’ll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence.

The Doctrine is the Ecstasy

historical arguments; traditional apologetics breaks down here. Since man is here dealing with God and this by definition means with the invisible, impalpable, uncontrollable, only one attitude is appropriate and required : believing trust, trusting faith.

And the One will reveal the Bow of the Southern Star and conquer the enemy with courage and fine judgment. The sight of the One is true and the enemy cannot hide. Griffon will fly

And the One will take the Sword of the Western Sun and triumph over the enemy with boldness and insight. The arm of the One is steady and heads will roll. Snow Giants will battle

When the watermelons were as large as a child’s head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow.

The word “We” is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the...

Damn, you’re good,’ he said and rolled onto his back. The man wasn’t much for flowery speech, Alesandra thought with a smile. It didn’t matter. She was arrogantly proud of herself because she’d pleased him. Perhaps she should give him a little praise too. She rolled onto her side to face him, put her hand...

Either.

I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in m bed. That’s what I want today. That’s what I’ll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.

it’s not about what to think,it’s about how to think.

Let them Teach,Let them learn,let them pray,for the world is theirs.

When extremists come together extreme things happen.

Express yourself, Express your life, Express the Moment, Live the life.

What do we do if we come across trouble, sir?’ Cahill asked, slapping at a fly. ‘As much as I enjoy giving the rebel turds a walloping, it should be down to the Militia to keep the buggers in check.”They are doing their job,’ Mullone said, glancing at a free-standing Celtic Cross that had once...

Yes, sometimes we must lose something…someone…before we realize its worth.

Jill, a comprehensive school teacher in her early thirties, has put her dark past behind her to become a lady in control of her own life. Successful in her career, soon to be divorced and with no emotional ties, she is content. Except that one morning, while trying to find work for a recalcitrant Year...

You next,” he said. “Out of those clothes and into bed.”She nodded but didn’t move from Sally’s side. The thought of undressing exhausted her. Where would she find the strength such a task would require?”I’m filthy. I’ll ruin the new bed.””I’ll bring you some fresh water.””I’ve no clothes to change into.”His grin was downright wicked....