Ton Phanan Quotes

#1. You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits.

Aaron Allston

#2. The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

William Ralph Inge

#3. What a miserable world!
trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.

Joseph De Maistre

#4. I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)

M.F.K. Fisher

#5. Cuteness should be preserved.

Aaron Allston

#6. The sin is in our thoughts.

Georg Buchner

#7. Consider the holiness of your hands. They are how you do your work on this earth; they are a microcosm of the hands of the Goddess, and can change the world as easily as hers can.

Dianne Sylvan

#8. When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them.

David Crossman

#9. What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.

Drew Houston

#10. I am not yet born; O hear me.
Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the
club-footed ghoul come near me.

Louis MacNeice

#11. Let us drink to the renewed success of Irish arms, and confusion to the Pope.

Patrick O'Brian

#12. Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students.

Gilbert Highet

#13. Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before.

Don DeLillo

#14. We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man..

Edgar Allan Poe

#15. Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.

Timothy Murphy

#16. It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

Frederick Lenz

#17. [Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

Rebecca West