Curt Hamil > Curt's Quotes

“If only we had the certainty in our strength that we do in our weaknesses and capacity for failure - oh how wonderful life would be”
― Daniel Mangena

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

“Mr. Hooks?”
“Mr. Ludefance? Pleasure to meet you and thank you for coming in.”
As he extended his hand to me, I noticed the girl at the desk staring at my face. Hooks looked back at her staring and must have given her a look of some kind.
“Mr. Ludefance, this is my secretary, Cholia.”
She stood up and continued to stare at my scar. Black hair, cute face, maybe five-foot-four at the most, and a little on the plump side with rosy cheeks. Young. Very young. Looked like a teenager to me. Or was I just getting ‘older?”
― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

“My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves. ”
― Katherine Dunn

“All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.”
― hunter s. thompson

“Her rage split her open.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“death,”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“all these other little ringlet-headed girls and break into a dance. Make everyone look at me, only me! But you have to stand in line. All we’re supposed to do is stand up here and”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“two,”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“عندما يتآمر العسكريون في الظروف البالغة الصعوبة التي يجتازها الحكام الظالمون ، ثم يخلعون الدكتاتور الذي يكون منهزما في الواقع ، يجب أن نؤمن بأنهم انما خلعوه لأنه كان عاجزا عن المحافظة على امتيازاتعم الطبقية دون ارتكاب اقصى العنف ، مما يلائم كثيرا على وجه العموم مصالحهم”
― Che Guevara, مذكرات أرنستو تشي جيفارا

“They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted. a”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Why should they be grateful? They came here looking for something much more. What we gave them, all the years, all the fighting we did on their behalf, what do they know of that? They think it was God-given. Until they came here, they knew nothing of it. All they feel now is disappointment, because we haven't given them everything possible.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Butler,” he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind.
“Yes, Artemis, what?”
“If something goes wrong, wait for me. No matter how it looks, I will return. I will bring them all back.”
― Eoin Colfer

“The haves and have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and did-nots. D. O. FLYNN”
― Dave Ramsey, The Money Answer Book: Quick Answers for Your Everyday Financial Questions (Answers to Over 100 of Your Questions on Personal Finance, Budgeting, Saving, ... How to Build Wealth)

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Prea multe mâini dornice să te pipăie și prea puțină afecțiune.”
― Jeffrey Archer, Kane & Abel / Sons of Fortune

“The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

“…wisely mingled poetry and prose.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever—that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast