Life Quotes

Legion hissed like a startled cat, the noise scraping at Reyes’s skin. “Me no boy. You think me a boy?” Everyone stopped, stared. Even Aeron. Reyes was the first to find his voice. “You’re a…girl?” A nod. “Me pretty.” “Yes, you ar...

Gena Showalter

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

Jerome K. Jerome

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

Criss Jami

This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past. It was like the past the future.

Kathryn Davis

Computers: he always fixed on computers when his mind wandered into the future--instruments he revered and hated. The computer world was a place where snotty kids knew everything and nothing.... The computer was part of a future cloudy, unpredictable...

Howard Fast

There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.

Laura Dave

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

Criss Jami

Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.

Criss Jami

A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh.

Kathryn Davis

Renee was beautiful, but she was my friend now. On the other hand, Annette was my friend, but now she was beautiful. makes about as much sense as anything ever does with girls

Jordan Sonnenblick

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

Paulo Coelho

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

Criss Jami

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

Paulo Coelho

Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him. (Saadi)

Idries Shah

Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical.

Sarah Ruhl

To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural intelligence, the side of truth, no matter what success I have, there is a prize which I cannot fail to win. I will find it in the...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

happy is the nation without a history

Cesare Beccaria

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Taylor Caldwell

He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't ...

Leanna Renee Hieber

Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is ... Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since the time of the Opium Wars, we have s...

Neal Stephenson

History boring, Janice concurred, undaunted as usual. It’s not like the Ride of the Valkyries. It’s what comes history that isn’t boring.

Kathryn Davis