Dan Simmons Ilium Quotes

#1. What I desire, thou dost not possess for thyself. How canst thou render it then to another?

Dorothy Dunnett

#2. We are all children until our fathers die.

Melissa Bank

#3. Mere faith is the path of the lazy. It is the overused excuse of the deluded. Get off your ass and make something happen yourself.

Dave Matthes

#4. Internet Explorer, Microsoft's crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily.

Cory Doctorow

#5. Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?
I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods.

Dan Simmons

#6. I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.

Georg Brandes

#7. Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

Paul Fussell

#8. Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#9. We need to do a much better job when people are addicted to take them through treatment and recovery.

Rob Portman

#10. The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying.

Liam Neeson

#11. A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#12. How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.

Dorothy Day