Ziva Payvan Quotes

#1. From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.

Melina Marchetta

#2. Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#3. My brain scrambled to make room for the existene of these people. Grandparents I'd never known. They went from hypothetical, empty memories to blurry, unformed shapes in my head. Dead one second, alive the next.
Kind of like me.

Megan Miranda

#4. You didn't have to do this, you know. I would have been fine."

"No, you wouldn't have. You would have done everything in your power to make sure everyone thought you were fine.

E.J. Fisch

#5. During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#6. Why? Why are you doing this?"

"Because, even though you sometimes make my job ten times harder than it needs to be, I've never doubted your abilities for a second.

E.J. Fisch

#7. Don't fucking push me. What are you?

Pepper Winters

#8. When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

Martin Luther

#9. You're a killer.... I never did peg you for an ordinary field agent. The way you carry yourself, the apathy in your eyes -- dangerous people recognize these things in other dangerous people.

E.J. Fisch

#10. Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Hippocrates

#11. My heart didn't fail, someone failed my heart.

Jess Rothenberg

#12. The successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.

Teresa Amabile

#13. Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I just watched it evaporate. You look one moment and there's everything, next moment it's gone. Photography is very philosophical.

Joel Meyerowitz

#14. She ran her fingers over the stock and down the barrel, then drew in a sharp breath and paused.

This was the gun she'd killed Soren Tarbic with.

E.J. Fisch

#15. I see the beginning, I see the end. And in the middle I just hope I don't fall on my ass to much

Shehanne Moore

#16. Do you remember when you came in and got me out of the harvesting room at Dakiti? I hadn't expected to ever see you again, and you just said--"

"Of course I came back, you idiot.

E.J. Fisch

#17. This was pretty much when the Guards behind me decided they were going to try to make me do this. And that is when I decided I was going to be hitting someone again.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#18. I do like the world quite a lot.

Shannon Hale

#19. It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

Salman Rushdie

#20. On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

Bil Keane

#21. Is she always like this?"

"Like what? A sociopathic shouka? Not always, if you can believe it. Is she always damn good at what she does? Yes. Always.

E.J. Fisch