Thucycdides Quotes

#1. I stuck on the lunchtime news. More riots. Tedious now. Depressing. You ever read Thucycdides? I'll boil him down for you in one easy moral: intergenerational war is a very bad thing.

Adrian McKinty

#2. How can we cash out-of-town checks when don't know whether a town's still there?

Pat Frank

#3. When you walk past a bookshop you haven't visited before, you have to go in and look around. That's the family rule.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#4. If He (God) is invisible, how does He know what He looks like?'
"The Torah tells us He has made man in His own image, after His likeness, and therefore He does but glance at you, my son, and sees Himself.

Noah Gordon

#5. I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

Shah Rukh Khan

#6. You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.

John Kessel

#7. You can't be criticized for what you don't try. You can't lose your balance if you never climb. Give it, Give it all, Give it NOW.

Milan Jed

#8. Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

Jane Hirshfield

#9. Poverty is being single.

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. We were all actors, just as you are all actors now. But our audience wasn't as large as yours. And our performances, like those on a stage, were fleeting, uncaptured.

David Levithan

#11. Night, a more perfect day.

Arthur Symons

#12. What are you two doing in here?" Mike Iglehart wore an eye-blistering white lab coat and a surly expression. "This isn't some teenage make-out room."
My face flushed scarlet. "Excuse me?"
"We were using the computer!" Ben barked. "That's it.

Kathy Reichs

#13. Devious, filthy girl. You like being watched, don't you? - Bennett Ryan

Christina Lauren