Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare

Cyndere's Midnight

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

Communists and Muslims are not the enemies to fear in this land, Fly. It is the food consumption that will eventually blow up in everyone’s faces.

Carnival: A Novel

I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets!

Carnival: A Novel

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Contact

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

Carry the One

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

Capital

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

Capital

Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had.

Consider Phlebas

You’re the one sitting there with a boner. You’ll terrify your charity guys, walking in with that thing pointing at them.

Crashed

Dor shook his head. Such mysteries were beyond his fathoming. All he could do was...what he could do.

Castle Roogna

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

Crescent

Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that are important. … it's vanity.

City of Stairs

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

The Cellist of Sarajevo

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

Cosmos

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. [Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]

Cosmos

We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.

Ceaseless

There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

Cosmos