Quotes of: Spectre Keyword

...every god serves a purpose and every faith fills a need.

Wrapped In White: Thirteen Tales of Spectres, Ghosts, and Spirits

...the dead, being wiser than the living, know freedom is always better than revenge.

Wrapped In White: Thirteen Tales of Spectres, Ghosts, and Spirits

Where science is a dignified waltz in three-quarter time, magic is an improvised saxophone solo: all gut checks and synchronicities.

Wrapped In White: Thirteen Tales of Spectres, Ghosts, and Spirits

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Novalis

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

Atul Gawande

Just tell yourself they're only stories. Pamela K. Kinney (Spectre Nightmares and Visitations)

Pamela K. Kinney

Norther Winslow: Roses are red. Violets are blue. I love Spectre...

Big Fish

No–one believes they’re a hero. But that doesn’t mean they’re not heroic - Captain Spectre.

The Wing Warrior

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

Thomas Huxley

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.

Lord Robertson

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

Mary Shelley

[after shooting down a SPECTRE helicopter] James Bond: I'd say one of their aircraft is missing.

From Russia with Love

In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.

Sarah Churchwell

[a poem he's worked on 12 years, written on a note pad] Norther Winslow: The grass so green. Skies so blue. Spectre is really great!

Big Fish

Truly the universe is full of ghost, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.

King Solomon's Mines

I don't believe in the white spectre-type of ghosts you get in stories, but what if ghosts are something else? Like memories somehow caught and trapped in time, released by being in certain places where things first happened.

Breathing Underwater

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.

The Midnight Palace

The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one.

The Birthmark and Other Stories

Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculations upon its nature! How mysteriously did it act as a check to human bliss - saying unto it "thus far, and no farther!

Selected Tales

To think that the spectre you see is an illusion does not rob him of his terrors: it simply adds the further terror of madness itself - and then on top of that the horrible surmise that those whom the rest call mad have, all along, been the only peop...

Perelandra

If there was a spectre haunting France in the 1780's, it was not that of revolution but that of state bankruptcy. The whole social and political structure of France stood in the way of tapping the wealth of the better-off, the only sure way of emergi...

The New History of the World