Quotes About A Leviathan

#1. Moon couldn't think of anything reassuring to say. They were trapped inside a leviathan, standing in a tunnel gnawed out by giant parasites. Going blank with terror was a perfectly rational way to react, especially for a groundling.

Martha Wells

#2. This is a leviathan I am about to ship out to sea ...

Victor Hugo

#3. This understanding floats on the surface of Jija's mind for the rest of the day after Renthree leaves. The truth is beneath the surface, a Leviathan waiting to uncurl, but the waters of his thoughts are placid for now. Denial is powerful.

N.K. Jemisin

#4. Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.

Steven Pinker

#5. As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely.
(Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)

Scott Westerfeld

#6. Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.

Scott Westerfeld

#7. Scorpius to Crichton "I know you're living on a stolen Leviathan with escaped prisoners, and I know that Leviathan is pregnant." "You know who the daddy is?

Paul Simpson

#8. Directly above the starboard engine room, it was also in a state of almost constant vibration, the noise juddering away below their feet with an awesome, leviathan constancy.

Jojo Moyes

#9. Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.

E. M. Forster

#10. (Economist Robert Higgs wrote a book about this phenomenon titled Crisis and Leviathan, in which he argues that government intervention inevitably creates future problems, which results in the government's intervening even more in an attempt to correct them.)

Glenn Beck

#11. It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#12. That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. "It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly."
"That's just what they used to say in the ads," I said ...

Michael Chabon

#13. A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

Alan Ryan

#14. Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit. Gold was the last limit. Its banishment as a standard unleashed the inflation monster and leviathan itself, which has swelled beyond comprehension.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#15. On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!

Robert Burns

#16. But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the shadow of the whole rearing up behind you, and you become lost in your thoughts in part from the panic of realizing the size of that imagined leviathan.

Jeff VanderMeer

#17. Violence between the combatants may be called war; violence by the bystander against the combatants may be called law. The Leviathan theory, in a nutshell, is that law is better than war.

Steven Pinker

#18. The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan ...

Rosita Forbes

#19. And though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.

Herman Melville

#20. You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

Scott Westerfeld

#21. I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.

Colin Marston

#22. There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the public and the government to the potential danger of a surveillance leviathan." (p.299)

Edward Jay Epstein

#23. There is something mournful and uneasy about waking up late at night on a moving train. The wheels clicked a bony rhythm, the engine growled like a distant Leviathan, and from time to time the whistle sounded a cry so lonesome it seemed to speak for the whole wide moonless night.

Robert Charles Wilson

#24. You're a bum-rag covered in clart!

Scott Westerfeld

#25. It had moved in the midnight waters of space like a pale sea leviathan; it had passed the ancient moon and thrown itself onward into one nothingness following another.

Ray Bradbury

#26. What a Kraken grasps it does not lose, be it a longship or leviathan.

George R R Martin

#27. Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

Ron Paul

#28. Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance; kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.

W.G. Pogson Smith