Rick Kichline > Rick's Quotes

“A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Prensar, destrozar y despellejar eran algunas de sus actividades favoritas.”
― Laura Esquivel, Como agua para chocolate

“He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Health officials soon traced the outbreak of food poisoning to undercooked hamburgers served at local Jack in the Box restaurants. Tests of the hamburger patties disclosed the presence of E. coli 0157:H7. Jack in the Box issued an immediate recall of the contaminated ground beef, which had been supplied by the Vons Companies, Inc., in Arcadia, California. Nevertheless, more than seven hundred people in at least four states were sickened by Jack in the Box hamburgers, more than two hundred people were hospitalized, and four died. Most of the victims were children. One of the first to become ill, Lauren Beth Rudolph, ate a hamburger at a San Diego Jack in the Box a week before Christmas. She was admitted to the hospital on Christmas Eve, suffered terrible pain, had three heart attacks, and died in her mother’s arms on December 28, 1992. She was six years old.”
― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“Maybe I ain't too old to start over, I think and I laugh and cry at the same time at this. Cause just last night I thought I was finished with everything new.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“إغماض العينين لن يغير في شيء، لا شيء سيتغيّر لمجرد أنك لا تريد أن تراه. بل، ستجد أن الأمر ازداد سوءًا في المرة التالية التي تنظر فيها.”
― هاروكي موراكامي, Kafka on the Shore

“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Hitler said KdF brought opportunity for everyone, all were equal. But how could all be equal if some were favored?”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly”
― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

“there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“and no one was to rise up negative about anything, one was to go positive with everything—go with the flow—everyone’s cool was to be tested, and to shout No, no matter what happened, was to fail. And hadn’t Kesey passed the test first of all? Hadn’t Babbs taken Gretchen Fetchin, and did”
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test