Silas Rewitzer > Silas's Quotes

“The Clintons’ partnership is infused with patriotic fervor. Early on, they referred to their life together as “the journey.” They intended to inspire the expansion of the country’s social consciousness.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

“To merge on the road you are meant to travel, means making a choice and then taking action.”
― C. Toni Graham

“Seconds are slowly, slowly passing by; like a lazy herd of elephants, heavy and laborious.”
― Gary Edward Gedall

“But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“The simplest and the most incredible thing in the world had come true again: two people speaking to each other, each for himself; and sounds, called words, shaped the same images and feelings in that palpitating mass behind the skull, and out of meaningless vibrations of the vocal chords and their unexplainable reactions in the viscous gray convolutions, skies suddenly grew again in which were mirrored clouds, brooks, past times, growth and decay and hard-won wisdom.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“The man in the corner hollered, "Tell it all!”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

“معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

“Donne in eccedenza", così venivano chiamate quelle rimaste nubili a causa della guerra e che difficilmente si sarebbero sposate, una minaccia, anzi una vera tragedia, per una società basata sul matrimonio. Violet aveva pensato che col tempo ci avrebbe fatto l'abitudine, invece a trentotto anni suonati le bruciava ancora l'idea di essere una donna in eccedenza.”
― Tracy Chevalier

“They can laugh, but they can't deny us. They can curse and kill us, but they can't destroy us. This land is ours because we come out of it, we bled in it, our tears watered it, we fertilized it with our dead. So the more of us they destroy, the more it becomes filled with the spirit of our redemption.”
― Ralph Ellison

“I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“After that Johnny began to watch himself. For the first time he learned to think before he spoke.”
― Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

“Finally, Cinder gulped. "I'm sorry I had to --" She gestured at the unconscious wedding coordinator, then waved her hand like shaking it off. "But she'll be fine, I swear. Maybe a little nauseous when she comes to, but otherwise...And your android...Nainsi, right? I had to disable her. And her backup processor. But any mechanic can return her to defaults in about six seconds, so..." She rubbed anxiously at her wrist. "Oh, and we ran into your captain of the guard in the hallway, and a few other guards, and I may have scared him and he's, um, unconscious. Also. But, really, they'll all be fine. I swear." Her lips twitched into a brief, nervous smile. "Um...hello, again. By the way.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

“in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“THE HOUSE straightened up and then go on and fix some of that chicken salad now,” say Miss Leefolt. It’s bridge club day. Every fourth Wednesday a the month. A course I already got everthing ready to go—made the chicken salad this morning, ironed the tablecloths yesterday. Miss Leefolt seen me at it too. She ain’t but twenty-three years old and she like hearing herself tell me what to do. She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I don’t hate much in life,”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.”
― Arthur Miller

“This world we live in is confusing, overwhelming and painful because he has a condition known as autism.”
― Tina Traverse, Forever, Christian

“One winter night, at his home, while he was stirring up the logs in his fireplace, he muttered, “Computers are irrelevant.” Building”
― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine

“Whatever be the actual state of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which labour is applied in any nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must depend, during the continuance of that state, upon the proportion between the number of those who are annually employed”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“You can't be so frightened of what might happen that you are unwilling to act.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart

“he’s not stupid, he’s just not observant.”
― Gary Paulsen, Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Deception