Doe Quotes - Page 28

• What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Eye, Upset, Boat

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat”, p.185, BookRix

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• The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Hate, Love You, Atoms

  "Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, intelligence.org. 2008.

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• Will nodded toward Hadrian. “Look at the swords he’s carrying. A man wearing one—maybe he knows how to use it, maybe not. A man carries two—he probably don’t know nothing about swords, but he wants you to think he does. But a man carrying three swords—that’s a lot of weight. No one’s gonna haul that much steel around unless he makes a living using them.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Men, Thinking, Two

  Michael J. Sullivan (2014). “Hollow World”, p.371, Riyria Enterprises

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• The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.

  Italo Calvino

  Past, Hands, Cities

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Make a wish," said Indigo. Rose made a wish and then asked, "Why?" "That's what I always do. Wish on the moving ones." "Does it matter how fast they move?" "I don't think so." "Can you wish on airplanes, too?" "Oh, yes.

  Hilary McKay

  Moving, Airplane, Thinking

  Hilary McKay (2004). “Indigo's Star”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.

  Richard Dawkins

  May, Being True

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition”, p.32, OUP Oxford

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• Being a homicide detective ca be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner or later - after weeks or months - they go back to their everyday lives. For the closest family it takes longer, but for the most part, to some degree, they too get over the grieving and despair. Life has to go on; it does go on. But the unsolved murders keep gnawing away and in the end there's only one person left who thinks night and day about the victim: it's the office who is left with the investigation.

  Steig Larsson

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

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• Why must I cling to the customs and practices of a particular country forever, just because I happened to be born there? What does it matter if its distinctiveness is lost? Need we be so attached to it? What's the harm if everyone on earth shares the same thoughts and feelings, if they stand under a single banner of laws and regulations? What if we can't be recognized as Indians any more? Where's the harm in that? No one can object if we declare ourselves to be citizens of the world. Is that any less glorious?

  Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

  Country, Law, Practice

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• If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness. He changes out of character with the passion of his love.

  Donald Miller

  Kindness, Passion, Character

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

  Edmund Burke

  Liberty, Morality, Absence

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• But the universe isn't fair. Things don't work out neatly, pain, hardship and challenges divided equally among those best equipped to deal with them. Sometimes individuals have to be Atlases and carry the weight of the world alone. It shouldn't happen that way, but it does.

  Darren Shan

  Pain, Work Out, Challenges

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• ― Why does toothpaste give me headache?

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Giving, Headache, Toothpaste

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.6, Macmillan

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• The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.

  Bernard Beckett

  Believe, Names, Media

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.

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• Does my new feminism make me look fat?

  Libba Bray

  Feminism, Looks, Fats

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• I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Art, Struggle, Understanding

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• ..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother? when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold? yesterday i was told a story about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old, who cannot fall asleep because when she does she dreams of nothing but the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor's corpse. if you told her war is over do you think she can sleep?

  Andrea Gibson

  Girl, Mother, Dream

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• How does Galdoila know about the reward?" i asked. "He reads the signs," Grover said. "Duh." "Of course," I said. "Silly me.

  Rick Riordan

  Silly, Duh, Rewards

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• ...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

  Robert Cormier

  Pain, Intensity, Certain

  Robert Cormier (2013). “Tenderness”, p.34, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.

  Patrick Ness

  Moving, Voice, Interesting

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• I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Numbers, Energy

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.78, Penguin

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• Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

  Tamora Pierce

  Money Talks, Bark, Walks

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.520, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Sacrifice, Issues

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• I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?" Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back." And my mum laughs. And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he´s their idol.

  Melina Marchetta

  Soccer, Mother, Running

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Peeta looks at the glass again and puts it together. "You mean this will make me puke?" My prep team laughs hysterically. "Of course, so you can keep eating," says Octavia. "I've been in there twice already. Everyone does it, or else how would you have any fun at a feast?

  Suzanne Collins

  Fun, Team, Mean

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.79, Scholastic Inc.

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• And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse. But I will be first to leave it. That's what I've been promised. When we were children, did he dare to imagine an empty space beside him where I then stood giggling, blowing soap bubbles through my fingers? When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins? Maybe he already is.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Brother, Children, Sorry

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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