[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.
When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live.
...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.
I was wrong, you were right. I'm dumb, you're smart. I'm ugly, and you're a stone-cold fox.
Yes - I've learned from my mistakes, and I'm sure I could repeat them perfectly.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in.
What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know. Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn’t, either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who...
If Shane had learned one thing, it was to never tamper with a firecracker during an explosion. That stood double when applied to women – especially when you were the idiot who’d lit the fuse.
Shut up, you fool...Really. I’m running out of things to throw at you.
Sorry about your bad luck.
..."Papa" referred to Frank five times as: "...the blood son of Dr. Felix Hoenikker." The phrase reeked of cannibalism.
If the techs are on it we're fine, but Briamiv and his buddy could fuck up a full stop at the end of a sentence.
I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a priest who didn't have a good word to say for magistrates; and there was a landlord who let furnished rooms by the hour and spoke highly of both...
To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only t...
Manie sans délire - insanity without delusion.
The good is the Enemy of the best. Until you depart from the good, you cannot enter God's best for your life.
The day we put an end to believing in hope will be the day we stop existing, for without hope, we are nothing.
Don’t let anyone set restrictions on your life...You chart the course of your own future, not anyone else. Don’t let people have such a power over you. Because if you’re always racing against their standards, then what’s the point of reaching...
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point.
