April 2008 Quotes

…humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things which are worst for them. - J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)

And when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry. - Ray Bradbury (How to Keep and Feed a Muse)

But exclusion is itself a form of inclusion. - John Updike (A Sense of Shelter)

…men and women are motivated, more than anything else, to seek happiness.
Happiness is something we feel in the middle of the active, successful pursuit of something we want. - Bob Cullen (Why Golf?)

Our lives are like these [card towers] I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all. - Stephen King (The Drawing of the Three)

Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger. - Robert Jordan (Winter's Heart)

His eyes widened, and for a moment he looked as if he and dumb had never even met, let alone got up together every morning and lain down together every night. - Stephen King (The Stand)

Knowledge is better than ignorance, even if that knowledge produces no further results. - Gilbert Highet (Man's Unconquerable Mind)

…in this Galaxy rationality does not always triumph. - Isaac Asimov (Prelude to Foundation)

…people live and die by nonsense. It's not what is so much as what people think is. - Issac Asimov (Forward the Foundation)

…all human action should aim at creating, maintaining, and increasing the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people. - John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)

Waking to the truth when it’s too late is a terrible thing. - Stephen King (Wizard and Glass)

Taking responsibility drained all the joy out of life and dried a man to dust. - Robert Jordan (Crossroads of Twilight)

…love is what moves the world, I’ve always thought…it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down… - Stephen King (The Stand)

We are not intended only to diagnose and calculate, but also to wonder; to admire; to expect the unexpected. - Gilbert Highet (Man's Unconquerable Mind)

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there…and still on your feet. - Stephen King (The Stand)

...sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation. - Stephen King (The Green Mile)

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it. - Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)

All is bad that is imposed from without. - Isaac Asimov (Foundation and Earth)

It is our choices,…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J.K Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

The world turns, that’s all. You can hold on and turn with it, or stand up to protest and be spun right off. - Stephen King (The Stand)

I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away
How long...
How long must we sing this song?
- U2 (Sunday Bloody Sunday)

A body’s life went by so fast…how was it a body could get tired of living? - Stephen King (The Stand)

The idea of dying, of no longer being, began to fascinate me. Not to exist any longer. Not to feel the horrible pains in my foot. Not to feel anything, neither weariness, nor cold, nor anything. - Elie Wiesel (Night)

For men almost always follow in the footsteps of others, imitation being a leading principle of human behaviour. - Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince)

The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind - Robert Jordan (The Fires of Heaven)

He told me that, in Japan, they don’t believe that people don’t die of old age or a natural death. They believe that they just get tired of a livin’. - Claude Brown (Manchild in the Promised Land)

We are so small and new and confused, we human beings. - Whitley Strieber (Transformation: The Breakthrough)