“Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.”

“Its not going to be easy, but its kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done.”

“Once you deposit that money in your checking account, it becomes the banks money and youre just another one of their creditors.”

“We had won the war, but when the insurgency reared its ugly head, we lost everything we had gained.”

“War is the most profitable business on earth”

“To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth.”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I dont have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.”

“She had a face that had had lived a thousand stories and none with a happy ending.”

“It's only after you've lost everything that we're free to do anything.--Chuck Palahniuk”

“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.”