Top 15 Achamian Quotes
#1. Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?
R. Scott Bakker
#2. A strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable.
R. Scott Bakker
#6. I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.
Charles Francis Richter
#8. Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.
Seth
#9. For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.
Linda Hunt
#10. The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#13. If you care about the people you work with then you work harder
Kristine Lilly
#14. It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
Joyce Maynard
#15. I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra
