114 quotes found
“Yet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with other androids. The classic resignation. Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genu...”
“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
“Behold those times re-created bythe brutal power of sunlit images,the light of lifes tragedy.The walls of the trial, the fieldof the firing squad; and the distantghost of Romes suburbs in a ring,gl...”
“Sir, we have a saying in our country: Theres no government, like no government.”
“Now right here, where the borders of South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya all come together, theres a patch of land, perhaps 14 or 15 thousand square kilometersabout the size of Montenegrothat is conte...”
“The Lord made what was once the desolation of the Palestine Mandate fertile again, as modern-day Israel, and if He so wills it, He will do the same for the Ilemi Triangle, for his own glory. The de...”
“I cannot help, but when danger is at hand remember always that I am here to stand -- or fall -- with you.”
“Were not a people worth saving, plain and simple. Were completely beyond thatboth the undead and the few still living. Yeah, 'living.' Some life, huh? But its the only life we could ever possibly l...”
“Only the wrong survive.”
“You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.”
“You try to tell yourself that you've been lucky, most incredibly lucky, and usually that works because it's true. Sometimes it doesn't work, that's all. Then you cry.”
“Growing up in a cathedral precinct, what did I know of the absurdities of communism, of how brave man and women in bleak and remote penal colonies were reduced to thinking day by day of nothing els...”
“Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is”
“Don't fuck around thinking you could have done it better. There is no better. There's just not being dead.”
“Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.”
“Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal. The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it started to falter. My life depends on a tree, she thought wryly ...”
“Wondering why you survived don't help you survive”
“An old horse, an old bird, an old man, an old tree, they all represent a great survival in the jungle of cosmos; they deserve to be applauded and respected!”
“Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive.”
“Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.”
