Triumvir Quotes

#1. She hesitated, aware that an ill-judged phrase might anger Triumvir Hegazi; not that she particularly cared. Dared she call it the Melding Plague, now that the Yellowstoners had given it a name? Perhaps that would be unwise.

Alastair Reynolds

#2. You're confident he'll have found him, then?"
"Well, no. I didn't sat that."
"If there's one thing I hate," Volyova said, looking coldly at the other Triumvir, "it's mindless optimism.

Alastair Reynolds

#3. The trouble with the dead, Triumvir Ilia Volyova thought, was that they had no real idea when to shut up.

Alastair Reynolds

#4. ...they were triplets and as mutually indistinguishable as peas in a pod or days in a prison.

Ian McDonald

#5. Paul needed to come out, not as gay or straight, but as human.

Christopher Bollen

#6. In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work
of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic
effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims
of life if God withholds his saving power.

John Piper

#7. Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.

Shirin Ebadi

#8. I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

Daniel Pennac

#9. Whenever I think of Milwaukee, I think of the American League. Hmm, Boston, Atlanta, weren't they the Browns, too?

Mike Shannon

#10. Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

Sir Arthur Sullivan

#11. I'm not looking to wear the white man out with my ability to suffer.

Don DeLillo