Difference Byzantine Quotes

#1. It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven.

Gerald Hausman

#4. The world couldn't heal as long as human beings were so determined to place gain over virtue, so determined to lead others to ruin down the wrong path.

Rosslyn Elliott

#5. Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

Epictetus

#6. And sometimes a dust storm would stand off in the desert, towering so high it was like another city
a terrifying new era approaching, blurring our dreams.

Denis Johnson

#7. Did we come here to laugh or cry ? Are we dying or being born ?

Carlos Fuentes

#8. Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Said Nursi

#9. It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life.

Michael P. Anderson

#10. He never lets go of Annie's hand. Not when they walk, not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to.

Suzanne Collins

#11. If I didn't think, I'd be much happier.

Sylvia Plath