Quotes About Amara

#1. This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.
[Culled from: "Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman"]

Emmanuel Aghado

#2. I consider my wife and children in all things; yet, I must consider Amara also.

A.H. Septimius

#3. After having grown up surrounded by so much manufactured beauty, Amara had come to want something different. Something that wasn't necessarily beautiful. Something imperfect, interesting, and perhaps even ugly.

Morgan Rhodes

#4. Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness
begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

Jim Butcher

#5. Amara would never let them go, even if there weren't a bond. That was what she vowed to herself right then. She'd fight for this, fight for them. They were worth it. And with the way they looked at her, she was just starting to figure out that she was worth it, as well.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#6. When you're leading, you're generally trying to lead change, and I think it was Roy Amara, who said about technology, "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." And I think the same applies to change within an organization.

Harry West

#7. And yes, there is such a thing as stupid questions. That was one of them.

J. Lynn

#8. There's no way to play it cool when you meet Paul McCartney. You just start sweating, you trip over your words. Everyone kind of reverts back to being a 10-year-old girl. You can't help it. He's one of the only people on planet Earth that everyone knows who he is. Everyone.

Rob Huebel

#9. Only by investing and speaking your
vision with passion can the truth, one
way or the other, finally penetrate the
reluctance of the world.

Soren Kierkegaard

#10. But you-aren't afraid of me?"
Elliot forced himself not to look away. "Oh I am. But for different reasons."
They stared at each other for a long, agonising moment . Elliot's throat went dry.

Astrid Amara

#11. Everyone complains about their children. I wonder, and not just to be argumentative: if children are such a pain in the ass, why have them?

Amara Lakhous

#12. -And I'm sorry too.
-For what?
-For calling you an asshole doctor.
-That's okay.
-Even though, technically, that is what you are.

Astrid Amara

#13. The truth is simple: Life is perfectly imperfect, unpredictable, and unexplainable.

HeatherAsh Amara

#14. Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.

Carolyn Crane

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Astrid Amara

#16. They had learned the language of each other's ardor, and yet each time Ilyas found himself marvelling at the newness of this
this coupling without restriction, this open, carnal honesty.

Astrid Amara

#17. Then go after her, Gavin. When you want something this badly, you don't just give up. You fight and fight until you absolutely can't fight anymore. It's in the Blake bloodline, so it should be easy enough for you. Besides, I've never known a more stubborn little bastard in my entire life.

Gail McHugh

#18. Elliot slid to the floor, panting. Ilyas pulled him close. They held each other for a moment. It was as pure a second of time as any Ilyas could recall, and he wished he could freeze it, trap it to savour forever.

Astrid Amara

#19. Elliot seemed out of place to Ilyas, so bright amongst the mud and dust that made up the camp.

Astrid Amara

#20. We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

Roy Amara

#21. He was like a lot of Warmbloods, massive and showy and a bit of a dumb jock ...

Astrid Amara

#22. -"What's that for?"
-"Have a little bread with your ice cream," she told me.

Astrid Amara

#23. Elliot waved goodbye, and before he thought better, Ilyas waved in return.
Only once he got back into his own tent did he realise he'd been smiling the entire way back.

Astrid Amara

#24. Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Michael Tippett

#25. Don't give up.' Ilyas felt his eyes tear up.
'I'm not giving up. I'm taking precautions to protect the only person I really care about in this whole damn world.

Astrid Amara

#26. I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.

Huston Smith

#27. Without family, Tover had spent many birthdays in lonely places, but being sold by his lover to a bunch of unscrupulous pirates definitely won the prize as being the worst birthday present ever received.

Astrid Amara

#28. No one can understand your pain until they experience it. Stop trying to explain.

Kemi Sogunle

#29. So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea from one shore to the other. Sometimes I think of myself as a smuggler: I cross the frontier of language with my booty of words, ideas, images, and metaphors.

Amara Lakhous

#30. Noctis ... this is a little embarrassing, but ... your male anatomy is bothering me.

Dahlia L. Summers