James Tullos > James's Quotes

“When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.”
― Darren Shan, Zom-B Underground

“But even I have enough sense to know the words “we have to win” are the first four steps on the road to hell.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Underground

“The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.”
― Gregory Benford, Shipstar

“If art is expression, can it fail? Is success simply a matter of what one does with failure?”
― Greg Sestero, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“[...] liberty and piety are all well and good, but a kingdom needs stability to survive; a healthy stalemate wherin every people, every faction, every city finds the status quo preferable to the price of change”
― J. Zachary Pike, Orconomics

“People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.”
― George Carlin

“There is no place in the world where nobody dies. There is no place where nobody is hungry, or nobody hurts. That place is only in our imagination. But if we get our heads around it, we can go a little way toward making this real place more like that imaginary place. They call that place Utopia.”
― Chris Weitz, The New Order

“I am stronger than my trials.”
― Dan Wells, Partials

“Think of how it all started: America was founded by slave owners who informed us, "All men are created equal." All "men," except Indians, niggers, and women. Remember, the founders were a small group of unelected, white, male, land-holding slave owners who also, by the way, suggested their class be the only one allowed to vote. To my mind, that is what's known as being stunningly--and embarrassingly--full of shit.”
― George Carlin

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

“I MAY BE A HOGWARTS STUDENT...." Hargirid paused angrily. "BUT I AM ALSO A SATANIST!”
― Tara Gilesbie, My Immortal

“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

“We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“Who needs a virus like the Collapse to exterminate the population when there's fundamental human nature and the desire for power?”
― Jenetta Penner, Actualized

“You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.”
― William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

“Selfless suffering feels good for short crusades, but as a way of life, it’s unsustainable.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.”
― Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears

“Don't confuse what you want and what you need.”
― Sarah Fine, Sanctum

“But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.”
― Darren Shan, Sons of Destiny

“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
― Eugene V. Debs

“Life’s too short for doubt, and yet too long for faith.”
― Jeff Long, The Descent

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Lord, what a splendid world we ruined”
― Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033