121 quotes found
“The trick was not to stifle the emotions, but to control them. Love, anger, grief all were weapons in their way, but they needed to be kept in check.”
“Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source of all that w...”
“Law and justice are not the same.”
“No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.”
“You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name.”
“It has always seemed to me that there are two types of people in this world: those rendered impotent by the sheer weight of evil it contains, and who refuse to act because they see no point, and th...”
“The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that's acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies.--Elwin Stark”
“If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and a purpose, however depraved. Perhaps some good can even come out of evil: a terrible deed of viol...”
“Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.”
“After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.”
“Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.”
“Most of the bad situations I've encountered began with the best of intentions.”
“"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly.""really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?”
“My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.”
“We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere.""Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.”
“There was a lot to be said for a mans capacity to be comfortable while alone.”
“Stories come alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no existence in our world. They were lik...”
“These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.”
“The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.”
“Stories come alive in the telling. ()They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and tr...”
