Charles Tilly Quotes

#1. My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his business, a sentiment I've never believed should be restricted to just writers.

Stephen King

#2. Yet in one way or another all of us - readers and writers alike - are ultimately prisoners of the documents. And the chains are hard to see

Charles Tilly

#3. No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and I'm sure everyone's like, 'Oh, she's American. She's from, like, North Carolina.' Like, nobody knows me in Australia, I'm just telling you.

Phoebe Tonkin

#4. The truth is that most of our modern values are antithetical to the specific teachings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. And where we do find these values expressed in our holy books, they are almost never best expressed there.

Sam Harris

#5. Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?

Soren Kierkegaard

#6. Breathless waltzes have only ever led girls into trouble.

Sarah MacLean

#7. The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life

Diana Nyad

#8. Difficult as it often is to grasp someone else's pain, it is easy to judge another's behavior.

Marcia Falk

#9. Collective violence has flowed regularly out of the central political processes of western countries... The oppressed have struck in the name of justice, the privileged in the name of order, the in-between in the name of fear.

Charles Tilly

#10. Winter's done, and April's in the skies,
Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!

Charles G.D. Roberts

#11. Doc. There is no 'something else' for me. There's no second option. It's you. It's just you.

Anonymous

#12. The best time is always yesterday.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#13. No matter how much they tried to dress her up with neon and family entertainment she [Las Vegas] was still a whore.

Michael Connelly

#14. If you pull a rope and some duct tape out of those saddlebags, I'm going to freak.
Jeana E. Mann. Intoxicated (Kindle Locations 746-747).

Jeana E. Mann

#15. I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Siri Hustvedt

#16. Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens ...

Charles Tilly

#17. My faith is a very important part of my life. I do not feel that I have become president of this country by accident, but that I have been chosen because nobody can accuse me of favouring the Albanian Muslims or the Orthodox.

Boris Trajkovski

#18. War made the state, and the state made war

Charles Tilly