Curtis Jensen > Curtis's Quotes

“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die in fire and pain, and when they come out of you, they leave your guts burned. It hurts more than anything you can talk about. And maybe worst of all is, you're not sure if there will ever be another god to fill their place. Or if you'd ever want another god to fill their place. You don't want the fire to go out inside you twice.”
― Gary Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars

“anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly”
― Jose Saramago

“Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning.”
― José Saramago

“but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.”
― José Saramago

“just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.”
― José Saramago

“Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Nothing burns like the cold.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Fear is the brother of hate.”
― Larry Niven

“One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better”
― Larry Niven

“Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time."
"Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“Wolf - tis what he is. He's not blackhearted like some men. 'Tis no heart he has at all.”
― Jack London, The Sea Wolf

“Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. The supply is too large.”
― Jack London, The Sea Wolf

“He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.”
― Jack London, The Sea Wolf

“I was jealous; therefore I loved.”
― Jack London, The Sea Wolf

“He who steals my purse steals my right to live," was the reply, "old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life.”
― Jack London, The Sea Wolf

“Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.”
― Jack London, The Sea Wolf

“Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“You read too much and understand too little.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising