39 quotes found
“Surviving is about need. Living is about want.”
“Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.”
“Evil wont leave you alone until you take a stand or until youre dead.”
“We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.”
“Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.”
“Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.”
“Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you dont save yourself, they will die.”
“A silence overtook the odd family in their odd surroundings as loss became the mockery of the moment, and they were caught up in the emotional release that is common in a theater audience after the...”
“I cant tell you whats in all of Gods plans, but I do know part of them. He empowers you with reason and will. Those are your strengths. Thats what gives you the chance to be great in his sight. He ...”
“Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people dont.”
“Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.”
“Seek until there is no hope and then seek further. Seek without end. Trudge on without tiring and without fear and without disheartenment. Trudge on, for it is within you to fight any enemy. It is ...”
“Everybody dies. Its no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.”
“The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brains machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, th...”
“It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.”
“Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pag...”
“Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.”
“If all you do is think about what you need, youre no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, youve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.”
“We, the beggar class, have little to lose and our expectations are, at best, modest, and when we suffer, it seems we suffer to the depths, for there is nothing in our lives nor in our souls to buoy...”
“I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.”
“He had no ability to give up. It wasnt that he didnt want to quit, he couldnt. It wasnt in him. It never had been.”
“Evil stinks and it doesnt disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.”
