Life Quotes

," Beranabus murmurs, face crinkling. "Most humans know nothing of true warfare. They wage their silly territorial battles, kill each other ruthlessly and freely, and consider themselves experts on war and suffering. But the real war has always been ...

Darren Shan

I've never met a politician who didn't deserve to be tossed into a pit full of Kallin," Beranabus grunts.

Darren Shan

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Douglas Adams

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

Erik Larson

Fate is nothing but the past in the future. It is only an excuse for inaction.

Omid Banyasad

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.

Jonathan Morris

I always like toast in a crisis.

James Goss

...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those fol...

Adam J. Banks

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. speaks plainly to this purpose, saying, 'that the institution of youth should be accommodated to that form of government under which they live; forasmuch as it makes exceedingly...

John Adams

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

John Adams

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway

At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (repre...

Daniel J. Siegel

Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

Dean Koontz

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

Christian Smith

Part of the irony of religion’s role is that in strengthening micro bonds between individuals, religion contributes to within-group homogeneity, heightens isolation from different groups, and reduces the opportunity for the formation of macro bonds...

Christian Smith

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.

Thomas Jefferson

Oh, sorry. I’m not . . . uh . . . interrupting something that will make me uncomfortable, am I?

G.A. Aiken

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

Thomas Jefferson

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

we roar along the rust belts——the great red spot—— the polar vortex——the caress of solar flares—— ruffle the molten methane and ammonia oceans of me—— the storm-riven non-surface of me and mine—— that which you call skin——...

Yann Rousselot

It was a good thing I recognized you or I might have had a lovely meal of you with some parsley. And potatoes.

G.A. Aiken