42 quotes found
“You don't look well," he pronounced."Indigestion," I replied."From what?""Reality.""Join the queue.”
“I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.”
“Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded.”
“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”
“Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.”
“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”
“The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.”
“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect," Corelli asserted. "he claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old as that saying : "Tell ...”
“Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.”
“Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passi...”
“A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity - or none at all - with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it.”
“All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.”
“Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.”
“Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason. It doesn't matter whether we are looking at God, race, or nationa...”
“A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.”
“The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.”
“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”
“This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.”
“Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration.”
“You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.”
