Damien Unangst > Damien's Quotes

“Boson forces don't exist in Quantum space. The Light of the World is only found this side of the Timewall.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

“Sally wiped the blood from Anderson’s mouth with her sleeve. She spoke to him, but also loud enough for all to hear. ‘Go find your son, Mr Anderson. This is our war now.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“Eleanor stayed with Franklin after his repeated infidelities, and yet toward the end of her life, she regretted it, and advised her children to choose differently. ‘Never for a minute would I advocate that people who no longer love each other should live together because it does not bring the right atmosphere into a home,’ she wrote. She added that it was sad when a couple was unable to make a success of marriage, ‘but I feel it is equally unwise for people to bring up children in homes where love no longer exists.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

“The storms in this era are like teenage angst, heavy and unreasonably intense.”
― Gary Edward Gedall, Survival

“I already have the three things I require to be successful. The Holy Bible, Iris Livermore, and a mirror.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Double Cross

“The best people all have some kind of scar.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“Karen Abbott reports that the Everleigh also offered sexual delicacies that weren’t available elsewhere—“French” style, for instance, commonly known today as oral sex.”
― Steven D. Levitt, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

“ويبدوا أنه مع العمر لا يطل هناك ما يدهشان . لكننا بذلك نفقد شيئا أساسيا هو ما يحاول الفلاسفة إيقاظه فيه داخلنا. ذاك ‘ن صوتا في عمق أعماقنا يقول لنا ان الحياة لغز كبير. وهذا ما جربناه قبل أن يعلموننا اياه بكثير”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Socrates is guilty of not acknowledging the gods the city acknowledges, and of introducing other new deities. He is also guilty of subverting the young men of the city. The penalty demanded is death.”
― Robin Waterfield, Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece

“Sé que mi familia es así pero este silencio me pesa. Tengo la impresión de tener millones de cosas que decir que, en el fondo, no interesan a nadie. Me viene a la memoria lo que decían los supervivientes de los campos de la última guerra al volver a su hogar: las pesadillas no se cuentan. Los demás no imaginan este género de pesadillas. Se instala, entre ellos y nosotras, una especie de statu quo que parece decir: ‘Estás aquí, se acabó, no hablemos más de ello.”
― Betty Mahmoody, For the Love of a Child

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― Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales

“You see how loving kindness conquers fear, even in animals. Let this lesson be engraved upon your hearts.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Imperial Woman: The Story of the Last Empress of China

“Socialization is not primarily cognitive. We are not persuaded rationally not to pee in the living room; we are required not to. We then rationalize and obey this rule even when no authority figure lurks to enforce it.”
― James W Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“Never test another man by your own weakness.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“The world was changing so fast it was hard to keep up. Grigori had never been inside”
― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants

“La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“But I was still lying and I knew it. I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders