Rat Quotes

“Where's Simon?" Clary interrupted.

Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat," she said darkly.

Did he do something to you?" Alec was full of brotherly concern. "Did he touch you? If he tried anything-"

No, Alec," Isabelle said irritably. "Not like that. He's a rat."

She's drunk," said Jace, beginning to turn away in disgust.

I'm not," Isabelle said indignantly. "Well, maybe a little, but that's not the point. The point is, Simon drank one of those blue drinks- I told him not to, but he didn't listen- and he turned into a rat.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-"
"You invented the Internet?"
It was my idea, Martha said.
Rats are delicious, George said.
"It was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the Internet, not the rats.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“THE UNFORGIVEN


Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people:

The kind who take and don't give.
The kind to whom you give and give,
And they keep asking.
The kind to whom you give and give and they say you gave nothing.
The kind whom have never offered anything,
But act like they're the ones providing
EVERYTHING.

The kind you give and give,
But take more than you can give.
And when they have already taken everything,
They get mad at you when you say you have
Nothing more to give.

The unforgiving,
The misgiving,
Wastefully living -
And selfishly driven.
The rat that never gives back,
Yet is so quick to attack -
Because they think the word
TAKING
Seriously means
GIVING.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Kad rat pravi zurku, redosled gostiju uvek je isti...
Prvo dodu Popovi...
Pa Topovi...
Pa Lopovi...”
― Đorđe Balašević, Jedan od onih života

“I loved you when you were three hundred and two pounds, and I love you now."
-Rat”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.”
― Cornelia Funke

“A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Peeps

“I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight. This being that could love a man, bear children, grow old, and die; to think one whole existence was in this weight.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

“The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“toliko se puta zemlja okrenula
toliko je naših u grobove ušlo
a mi i dalje nismo ljudi nego
neka strašna deca”
― Milena Marković, Deca

“Chucky, the once ever-gracious gray Persian cat, had sinned. He had broken the commandment of the house. All who lived within it must abide it. There was only one commandment: the Declaration of Solidarity, and that was this, 'Thou shalt live as if every life is your own.”
― Anthony Trendl, Escape from Hicklebirkle Manor

“Ali meni je važno i dok god mogu ispričati ovu priču, u nju ću uključiti stvorenja u svom ekosustavu - ptice, leptire, pčele, mrave, komarce i miševe - jer jedno sam naučila: gdje postoje rat i bolna podjela, neće biti pobjednika, ljudskih ili drugih.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“2. maja sam naučila da je strah nešto što osjetiš negdje s prednje strane butina, pa se počne kretati naviše, dok ti ne dođe do pluća, pa malo teže dišeš. A i ruke ti se malo tresu i poprime neku ljubičastu boju. Ali svašta možeš kad moraš.
Amira Sadikovic”
― Nihad M. Kresevljakovic, 2. Maj 1992. Bio je lijep i sunčan dan

“Pia, I have lied to you. I told you there were no gods. But there are, oh yes, there are. We are gods, Pia, you and I and Roosevelt. Yes, ha! Roosevelt, the rat god! We have created life! And so we have become gods in our own right.”
― Jessica Khoury, Origin

“My pig has become a rat in his own right.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“My rat has become a pig in his own right.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“If you can’t paint a rat in one stroke, are you even speaking art?”
― Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-

“U ratu država daje topove, bogati volove a sirotinja sinove. Кada rat prođe država uzme topove, bogati svoje volove a sirotinja broji grobove.”
― nepoznat autor

“I myself have often pursued strange rats, I have inflicted wounds, I have bitten, I have killed. I know this hatred very well, the hatred of an intruder, an alien, a stranger heralding the arrival of others, who from those that are pursued and attacked may easily turn into those that pursue and attack.”
― Andrzej Zaniewski, Rat

“Gambian rats are used to detect land mines and also tuberculosis, apparently via their highly developed sense of smell. This is probably one of the most paradoxical cases of human sophistication - using special skills of other living beings to deal with our own species' proneness to proactive aggression.”
― Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra, The Process of Animal Domestication

“Louie Milito was killed because, as Gravano would put it, “he fucked with me; I had to get John Gotti’s permission and I got it.” Explaining why Gravano had convinced Gotti of Louie's “subversive” [talk] behind his back.”
― John Gleeson, The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

“So Sammy "the Bull" Gravano had falsely reported that DiB (Robert DiBernardo) was being subversive in order to get John Gotti to kill him, all so Gravano could take over the lucrative construction racket.”
― John Gleeson, The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

“According to defense attorney, Bruce Cutler, Gravano misrepresented himself to FBI agents and prosecutors as a strong-willed, tough-as-nails gangster who had confronted Gotti when he had disagreed with his Mob policies. The lawyer recalled that in Gotti’s presence, 'Gravano was always subservient, even obsequious around John.'
And when the climactic test came, Sammy’s self-preservation was more important to him than saving his boss and dozens of his crime colleagues.”
― Peter Maas, Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia

“The captain leaves a sinking rat ship.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Prije polaska u Bosnu, u ministarstvu vanjskih poslva, oficirski kadar donekle je upoznat sa stanjem u zemlji u kojoj idu. (...)
Odnosi između tih triju vjera, rekli su im potom, puni su nesporazuma i nepremostivog nepovjerenja, iz čega proizlazi sve ostalo, nesuglasice i sukobi koji su rađali svakom vrstom zla. Stekne se stoga dojam da se svi oni međusobno mrze, teško i nepopravljivo. Međutim, nije tako, nije mržnja ono što upravlja postupcima tih ljudi - već strah. Pas koji se boji - ujeda. Tako je svugdje, ne samo u Bosni, međutim Bosna je posebna zbog tri naroda koja u njoj izmiješana žive. I svi oni imaju svoje strahove: katolici se boje pravoslavnih, pravoslavni katolika, a muslimana se boje i jedni i drugi. Turci su u tome iznimka: njihov strah nešto je drugačiji od straha pravoslavnih i katolika, sličan je onome koji postoji u zapadnom svijetu: to je strah povlaštene kaste da će izgubiti prevlast i privilegije koje idu uz nju. A strah je u Bosni stalno priutan, poput bolesti koja se načas smiri, pa se ponovno razbukta. Uvijek je tu, zakopan plitko ispod kože, i samo se treba naći onaj koji će zagrebati ispod nje i tako ga potaknuti. Uvijek je strah glavni pokretač tih ljudi, ali ni u jednom trenutku ne smije se zanemariti njihovo sjećanje, iskrivljeno i selektivno, iz kojeg se onda rađa strah. Svi se sjećaju vlastitih nesreća i patnji, a zlo koje oni čine drugima, učas zaborave. Na njega ne ostane ni spomena. Zato ga ovi drugi pamte, dugo i ustrajno. Mržnja je, dakle, samo instrument straha, koja prestaje onog trena kad ne postiji razlog za njega.”
― Josip Mlakić, Na Vrbasu tekija

“Polupani auti i obrušene fasade,
Zašto sam još ovde odakle sam?
Sugerišu da je bolje van granica
A ja ne mogu
Ne jer nisam ni pokušao
Nego nigdje više ovako nesretan neću moći
Da budem.”
― Hana Tiro, Sarajevo Shit

“one cannot ignore associating laboratory rats with the millions of deprived young people who suffer under the merciless political and administrative experiments carried out by dictators, multinationals and mercenary militias.”
― Hanan Jasim Khammas