Van Cerney > Van's Quotes

“The troops arrived at the wall together and swept into the village, some through the gates and some through the holes blasted by the artillery. Then the slaughter began as they went from hut to hut, winkling out the defenders at bayonet point. The screaming showed the progress of the individual battles across the village until at last it was quiet.”
― Nigel Seed, No Road to Khartoum

“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

“Unconditional Love conquers all!”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

“He was the future he was a perfect picture of the future and they were afraid to let anyone see what the future was like. Already they were looking ahead they were figuring the future and somewhere in the future they saw war. To fight the war they would need men and if men saw the future they wouldn't fight.”
― Dalton Trambo

“The books still weren’t real, but maybe they were written about city women, television women, Yankee women—just about as strange as Zeus had always been and Jesus was getting to be.”
― Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature

“يجب أن تفكر أنت .. فكر لنفسك .. يجب أن تتشكك فى كل ما يقال لك .. إذا أخطأت فلأننى حاولت أن أعرف , إذا عرفت فإننى أخطىء , لأن الذى عرفته قليل جدا , والذى لا أعرفه كثير جدا ولأن عقلى صغير ووقتى قصير .. ولكن لا يهم ما الذى فهمت وكيف أخطأت المهم أننى حاولت وسوف أمضى فى المحاولة .. وخير لى أن يشنقونى لأننى حاولت فأخطأت من أن يتوجونى لأننى ماطلت وكذبت وانخدعت وخدعت .. !!”
― فولتير

“My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed