Era Gaska > Era's Quotes

“His eyes swelling with tears, the alien salt stinging. Not tears of sadness, this he decides. He won't let them be anything more than a body's way of letting go.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

“It’s fine to go offline. You won’t lose your place in the world. And once you practice it and get good at it, I predict you’ll move a step farther from thinking, “It’s fine,” to realizing, “It’s divine!” The more you log off, the more you’ll realize how fabulously freeing it truly is.”
― Art Rios, Let's Talk: ...About Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, And Exceptional

“We don't have adoption issues, we have an issue with adoption.”
― Janine Myung-Ja, Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists

“Emotional detachment from the plight of others — easily achieved by simply looking the other way — always favoured the perpetrators rather than the victims who were reduced to being inconsequential nonentities; were persecuted and denied legal and human rights; were starving, sick, and dying; were victims of Apartheid policies with racial segregations inclusive of political and economic discrimination; were harassed, internally displaced, or forcibly deported; were imprisoned, tortured, or simply “disappeared”; were enslaved, exploited, or trafficked; and were ultimately the victims of mindless massacres that defied the comprehension of anyone even remotely humane.”
― William Hanna, THE GRIM REAPER

“Of a hundred and fifty doctors in the city, sixty-five were already dead and most of the rest were wounded. Of 1,780 nurses, 1,654 were dead or too badly hurt to work. In the biggest hospital, that of the Red Cross, only six doctors out of thirty were able to function, and only ten nurses out of more than two hundred.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hidden order, and the scientist is trying to elucidate the hidden order in our reality. And that impulse is what the scientist shares with the mystic. The impulse to get to the bottom of things. To know how the world really works. To know the nature of things.”
― Michael Crichton, Travels

“I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“We do not pass through the same door twice
Or return to the door through which we did not pass”
― T.S. Eliot

“И все равно миф о Вудстоке как о суверенном государстве молодежной культуры был частью большого замысла, в центре которого стояло самоопределение целого поколения, — о такой концепции приходившие на Вудсток-94 и помыслить не могли: ведь им самоопределение их поколения по большому счету уже продавали в расфасованном виде, а поиски себя всегда формировались и направлялись разнообразными маркетинговыми мероприятиями, независимо от того, верили они им, или нет, или же самоопределялись вопреки им. Это — побочный эффект экспансии брэндов, который гораздо труднее проследить и определить количественно, чем брэндинг культуры и городского пространства.”
― Naomi Klein, No Logo

“Who would sup with the mighty must climb the path of daggers.

-Anonymous notation found inked in the margin of a manuscript history (believed to date to the time of Arthur Hawkwing) of the last days of the Tovan Conclaves”
― Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers

“I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“You have no idea how strong my love is!”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Better to be the poor servant of a poor master.”
― Homer

“To have learnt to live on the common level
Is better. No grand life for me,
Just peace and quiet as I grow old.
The middle way, neither great nor mean,
Is best by far, in name and practice.
To be rich and powerful brings no blessing;
Only more utterly
Is the prosperous house destroyed, when gods are angry.”
― Euripides, Medea

“In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“Rain before sunset and we’ll be in shelter.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“Most people think Marv is crazy, but I don't believe that.
I'm no shrink and I'm not saying I've got Marv all figured out or anything, but "crazy" just doesn't explain him. Not to me. Sometimes I think he's retarded, a big, brutal kid who never learned the ground rules about how people are supposed to act around each other. But that doesn't have the right ring to it either. No, it's more like there's nothing wrong with Marv, nothing at all--except that he had the rotten luck of being born at the wrong time in history. He'd have been okay if he'd been born a couple of thousand years ago. He'd be right at home on some ancient battlefield, swinging an ax into somebody's face. Or in a roman arena, taking a sword to other gladiators like him.
They'd have tossed him girls like Nancy, back then.”
― Frank Miller, Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For

“There is no universe per se. Nor is there a beginning, Big Bang or otherwise. We live in an energy field that recycles quarks, which format with given configurations, because they've done that before.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“When you lose your home country, what do you preserve and what do you abandon?”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
― Robert Graves

“I suppose all societies adapt their morals to their needs.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Centaurus Changeling

“The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“We ask for progress, not perfection. Just do your best.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“It’s because others have said you were bad and they made you live in bad conditions. When a man hears that over and over and looks about him and sees that his life is bad, he begins to doubt his own mind.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“I don't know facts, and probably there aren't any to know. Whatever crazy thing people want to believe, that's what they call it, a fact.”
― Charles Frazier, Varina

“Nothing dies in Hell.”
― John Patrick Kennedy, Plague of Angels