Doe Quotes - Page 37

• There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Stars, Law, Sky

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• What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto!

  Stephen Colbert

  Pasta, Communist, Pun

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• That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Long, Want

  Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.226, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, Flower

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Feet, Giving, Six

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Her honor will come to no harm at my hands,” Jack said. “’Tis not her honor but her tender heart that I worry about,” Alexander said. “She’s a delicate lass,” Hugh added. “Aye,” said Gregor. “A Scottish rose.” “Your tender, delicate rose had me ambushed, knocked unconscious, and forced to wed,” Jack ground out. “Facts you all know, if you’ve spoken to Hamish.” Dougal grinned, his teeth flashing whitely. “She has the devil’s own temper, our Fiona does.

  Karen Hawkins

  Heart, Hands, Worry

  Karen Hawkins (2007). “How to Abduct a Highland Lord”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• ...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

  Leon Trotsky

  Exhaling, Crisis, Live By

  Leon Trotsky (1972). “The first 5 years of the Communist International”, Pathfinder Pr

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• How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her.

  Sarah Waters

  Air, Soul, Looks

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• I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn't freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying. -Paige

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fall, Doors, Trying

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Dime Store Magic: Women of the Otherworld”, p.255, Vintage Canada

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• A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sorry, Book, Smell

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.273, Melville House

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• What business does memory have with time?

  Jess Walter

  Memories

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• For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.

  Milan Kundera

  Degrees, Coincidence, Existential

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• What you call love does not sound very beautiful.

  Lauren Kate

  Beautiful, Sound, Very Beautiful

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• A gentleman does not boast about his junk.

  Emily Post

  Gentleman, Junk, Boast

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• Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Humorous, Aunt

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.67, Jerome K. Jerome

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• If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Thinking, Topics

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.100, Jerome K. Jerome

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• A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Thinking, Dying

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.

  Herta Muller

  Hurt, Eye, Differences

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• I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.

  David Levithan

  Memories, Thinking, Brain

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry lectures regarding soil composition? Do your members find themselves whipped into some sort of dusty frenzy, from which no delicate lass would be safe?" Mr. Barrington tugged on his coat. "Sometimes the debate does get heated." Colin turned to her. "Min, Can I just hit him?" "I think that's a bad idea." "run him through with something sharp?

  Tessa Dare

  Running, Stupid, Men

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• That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

  David Levithan

  Night, Ends, Said

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• Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

  Roger Zelazny

  Kindness, Soul, Honor

  Roger Zelazny (1978). “The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber”

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• A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches. Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms.

  Georges Bataille

  Girl, Men, Knowing

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939”, p.6, Manchester University Press

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• Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Moving, Mean, Winning

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “Sophia's Secret”, p.270, Allison & Busby

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