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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 30ce151 | No hagas juicios en tres dimensiones de lo que solo puedes ver en la pantalla de un televisor. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 97e9ddc | Can't fucking believe it's come to this," it muttered. "Negotiating with a fucking herdsman -- you know, sometimes it's -- listen, I was the thief of once, you goat-shagging thug. You know that? The fucking doom bringer to kings." An arm thrown out in exasperation. "Back when the earth was young, back when there was still a in the fucking sky, I pulled on whatever flesh was needful and I struck terror into the hearts of the powerful and.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 99cede2 | But I won't watch them go to war again. I've been to war, you know, to save civilization from the reptile hordes. I bled for it, I saw friends and other men die for it. And then I watched men like you piss it away again, the civilization we'd saved, in squabbles over a few hundred square miles of territory and what language the people get to speak there, what color their skin and hair is and what kind of religious horseshit they get crammed.. | war | Richard K. Morgan | |
| 0045992 | These are pious, clean-living men, worshipping at the temple of their own bodies." "Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 8114ec0 | Rich people do this. They have the power and they see no reason not to use it. Men and women are just merchandise, like everything else. Store them, freight them, decant them. Sign at the bottom, please. On | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| cd9a4f2 | The [ military ] lawyers I saw there had about as much in common with the man who had defended me at fifteen as automated machine rifle fire has with farting. They were cold, professionally polished and well on their way up a career ladder which would ensure that despite the uniforms they wore, they would never have to come within a thousand kilometres of a genuine firefight. The only problem they had, as they cruised sharkishly back and fo.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 41476d6 | They named me Kristin after some whale scientist in Australia, worked on the original translation team. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 24191aa | Worse fates than being forced into a place where your choice of acts is limited to those where your soul burns brightest. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| fda3fe9 | We're all bound for the Sky Road, sooner or later. How we walk it depends on how we walked in the world beneath. So you don't sit on your arse whining and waiting for your death to come find you. You go looking for it. Track the fucker down, force the issue. You walk, Archidi, you find the strength to walk, and you keep walking till you drop. Now some men don't have that strength, so you have to lend it to them. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 5f297a6 | As a child I'd believed there was an essential person, a sort of core personality around which the surface factors could evolve and change without damaging the integrity of who you were. Later, I started to see that this was an error of perception caused by the metaphors we were used to framing ourselves in. What we thought of as personality was no more than the passing shape of one of the waves in front of me. Or, slowing it down to more h.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 7036c75 | I've heard that said about outlanders and enemies before, and I don't generally trust it. Just too bloody convenient, the quick and easy way to deal with difference. Oh, they're not like us, they're insane. It saves you having to think too much. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| bdf8687 | You know what you stupid fucking conspiracy assholes just don't get? No one is that well organized. There is no big Deep State evil, no Corporate Earth Plot to Enslave Humanity. It's just a bunch of conflicting interests making a fucking mess wherever they go. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| fe84382 | Pull on the cold, clinking mail of your professional detachment, Archeth Indamaninarmal, inhabit it until it starts to feel warm and accustomed, and in time you'll forget you're wearing it at all. You'll only notice when it works, when it stops you feeling the steel-edged bite of something that might otherwise have gotten through and done you some damage. And then you'll just grin and shiver and shake off the blow, like warriors do. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 9e2f7ef | Then let me tell you something instead. When they make an Envoy, do you want to know what they do? They burn out every evolved violence limitation instinct in the human psyche. Submission signal recognition, pecking-order dynamics, pack loyalties. It all goes, tuned out a neuron at a time; and they replace it with a conscious will to harm." He stared back at me in silence. "Do you understand me? It would have been easier to kill you just th.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 93dcaf0 | He's a pretty serious believer.' 'Yeah? Funny how it doesn't get in the way of his commercial life.' 'Yeah, well. Organised religion, you know. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| ede198b | the overwhelming impression I got was that if there was a line of least resistance in life, this face had never been along it. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 4a8f35e | Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Neal Stephenson, Richard K. Morgan, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Terry Pratchett, Terry Brooks, | Ernest Cline | ||
| fc58b4c | Drunk one night, Sarah had told me Women are the race, Tak. No two ways about it. Male is just a mutation with more muscle and half the nerves. Fighting, fucking machines. My own cross-sleevings had born that theory out. To be a woman was a sensory experience beyond the male. Touch and texture ran deeper, an interface with environment that male flesh seemed to seal out instinctively. To a man, skin was a barrier, a protection. To a woman, i.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 4927d75 | Over the past five years, I'd worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 99eb33c | Part of running a successful tyranny is knowing when and how to let your subjects off the leash | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| d7d038a | Money closes more than mouths, it closes minds. | Barbara Cleverly | ||
| d5ccb88 | A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark Twain, is sixteen minutes too long. Technical note: It is better to tell a eulogist to speak for four minutes not five minutes. "Five minutes" to the modern ear sounds like "around five minutes," whereas "four minutes" means "four minutes." | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 438a813 | In our corrupt times, the virtue of a Pontiff is commended when he does not surpass the wickedness of other men. --Francesco Guicciardini, History of Italy, 1561 | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 16571b1 | Let's look at this rationally...We've got a doctor who may kill him, an Attorney General who wants to declare him bananas, and a Defense Secretary who wants me to start World War III...First, we ruled out starting World War III. We were down to killing the President or having him carted off by the men in white coats... | Christopher Buckley | ||
| c937ba4 | His sculpture would have joy in it, try to capture the sense of fertility of Dionysus, the nature god, the power of the intoxicating drink that enabled a man to laugh and sing and forget for a while the sorrow of his earthly miseries. And then, perhaps, at the same time he could portray the decay that came with too much forgetfulness, that he saw all around him, when man surrendered his moral and spiritual values for the pleasures of the f.. | Irving Stone | ||
| f5733fb | Physicians do not systematically prescribe placebos to their patients. Hence they have no way of comparing the effects of the drugs they prescribe to placebos. When they prescribe a treatment and it works, their natural tendency is to attribute the cure to the treatment. But there are thousands of treatments that have worked in clinical practice throughout history. Powdered stone worked. So did lizard's blood, and crocodile dung, and pig's .. | history treatments | Irving Kirsch | |
| fac071c | Lorenzo il Magnifico, the Plato Four, the humanists had taught him that man was the center of the universe; and this was never more demonstrable that when he stood looking upward and found himself, a lone individual, serving as the central pole holding up the tarpaulin of sun and clouds, moon and stars, knowing that, lone or abandoned as he might feel, without his support the heavens would fall. | strenght | Irving Stone | |
| 0bae5bd | L'arte e fatta per coloro che si sente indegno senza di essa. | Irving Stone | ||
| 0008792 | said vice-admiral, Uncle Jan shook his head, his face became even more concerned. Vice-admiral could not believe that there would be such a thickhead in Van Gogh family. | Irving Stone | ||
| 18c342a | Every man must settle down once in a lifetime. | Irving Stone | ||
| 16826cd | Finally he said, "I like everything that wild Irish maniac, J. P. Donleavy, ever wrote." It wasn't so much a discussion as a sharing of taste. He also liked The Agony and the Ecstasy and Lust for Life by Irving Stone." | Norman Mailer | ||
| e694749 | Kita harus bertindak sesuai dengan nalar kita, dan selanjutnya biarkan Tuhan yang menentukan nilai akhirnya, Kalau kau yakin pada saat ini ingin menjadi pelayan Sang Pencipta kita dengan cara tertentu, maka keyakinan itulah satu-satunya pembimbing yang kau miliki menuju masa depan. Jangan takut untuk meyakini hal ini. | perseverance | Irving Stone | |
| 3575c3c | Fortune is beastly -- it is only suitable for cows and businessmen. | Irving Stone | ||
| 9d6892f | Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge. | Irving Stone | ||
| f1dcefb | An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it. | Irving Stone | ||
| 10dadb2 | When I was young, Monsieur," he said, "I used to think a lot about God. But He seems to have grown thinner with the years. He is still in that cornfield you painted, and in the sunset by Montmajour, but when I think about men . . . and the world they have made . . ." "I know, Roulin, but I feel more and more that we must not judge God by this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. What can you do in a study that has gone wrong, if y.. | Irving Stone | ||
| e738c8b | I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you. | romance | Irving Stone | |
| 0d21e31 | How could he have been so stupid, so blind? David pictured after Goliath could be no one but the biblical David, a special individual. He was not content to portray one man; he was seeking universal man, Everyman, all of whom,from the beginning of time, had faced a decision to strike for freedom | Irving Stone | ||
| 20d6ca1 | Dr. Irving Stone of the Institute for Forensic Sciences in Dallas. He's the guy who analyzed the clothing worn by President Kennedy and Governor Connally for the congressional committee that reexamined the Kennedy assassination. | John Berendt | ||
| 63a9d96 | Only suffering grows big artists. | Irving Stone | ||
| ce195e2 | Most men seem to live for themselves, without much or any regard for thy glory, or for the good of others; They earnestly desire and eagerly pursue the riches, honor, and pleasures of this life, as if they supposed that wealth, greatness, merriment, could make their immortal souls happy; | happiness holiness | Arthur Bennett | |
| b77b078 | I fall short of thy glory every day by spending hours unprofitably, by thinking that the things I do are good, when they are not done to thy end, nor spring from the rules of thy Word. [From the prayer, Shortcomings] | Arthur Bennett | ||
| 8597902 | What then? Are we only to buy the books that we read? The question has merely to be thus bluntly put, and it answers itself. All impassioned bookmen, except a few who devote their whole lives to reading, have rows of books on their shelves which they have never read, and which they never will read. I know that I have hundreds such. My eye rests on the works of Berkeley in three volumes, with a preface by the Right Honourable Arthur James Ba.. | Arnold Bennett | ||
| b8cf946 | Epeide den mporeite na ta bgalete pera khoris to oneiro. | Julian Barnes |