Quotes of: Mortals Keyword

You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you...

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

There are a few things that even sarcasm can't protect you from.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in areas with low maternal mortality.

Emily Oster

You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.

All Mortal Flesh

You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.

Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!

The Master and Margarita

Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind, Veil after veil will lift--but there must be Veil upon veil behind.

The Light Of Asia

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

The Last Werewolf

The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

The Weight of Glory

We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.

Ezra Taft Benson

I remember the first Mortal Kombat, when that came out, that was the hardest game of all time. There would be lines at the arcade around the block, and I still love all of the Mortal Kombat games.

Diego Corrales

People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.

Daniel Kahneman

Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.

Life

I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one of us. Once He had become mortal, He could not become immortal except by dying. That He prayed the prayer at all sho...

Jayber Crow

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Mortals and Others 1: American Essays 1931-35

Everyone loves a kick-ass girl. (Well- maybe not her enemies, but you know what I mean.)

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

The beauty of fantasy is that it allows the protagonist to pass through fear to come to know this different reality and to find a place in it.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

Q: What is wrong with the world? A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.

While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction