August 2008 Quotes

You get what you pay for
But I just had no intention of living this way
- Counting Crows (Raining in Baltimore)

...fire was evil stuff that delighted in escaping the hands which created it.
- Stephen King (The Waste Lands)

Deeds may do the job where words fail.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)

There must be a difference in what you saw...depending on wether you sought adventure or had it forced on you.
- Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

Women cost a man money, they fought like alley cats, and they caused trouble. Any and all trouble a man had could be laid to women, one way or another.
- Robert Jordan (The Fires of Heaven)

A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife…
- Robert Jordan (Lord of Chaos)

...it would be desirable to be considered generous; nevertheless, if generosity is practiced in such a way that you will be considered generous, it will harm you.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince)

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.
- Stephen King (The Stand)

Some wars could not be won, but they still must be fought.
- Robert Jordan (New Spring)

And prudence in counsel is clearly a form of knowledge; good counsel cannot be due to ignorance and stupidity.
- Francis MacDonald Cornford (The Republic of Plato)

I'm just waiting for that cold black soul of mine
To come alive
- The Refreshments (Nada)

...fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- D.C. Masters (A Short History of Canada)

Let others know you possessed a secret, and some would work to learn it; that was a fact of nature.
- Robert Jordan (New Spring)

Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on...
- Stephen King (Bag of Bones)

I have always felt that when punishment is done, the fault that caused it should be erased.
- Robert Jordan (The Dragon Reborn)

Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries.
- Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

It's up to men to build things...It's up to God to blow them down.
- Stephen King (The Drawing of the Three)

As long as men live upon this planet, they will, they must continue to think; and they will think in spite of the worst tyrannies and cruelties that they can devise for one another.
- Gilbert Highet (Man's Unconquerable Mind)

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.
- Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

What possible use could be made of an experience if one allowed it to invoke only rage?
- Whitley Strieber (Transformation: The Breakthrough)

When you’re in bed with someone you love, particularly for the first time, five o’clock seems almost holy.
- Stephen King (Bag of Bones)

Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm.
- Robert Jordan (New Spring)

And in that moment I realized that I would be a fool to dissipate my energies and that success in anything called for the utmost concentration in that field.
- Paul Gallico (One Writer’s Life)

The best way toward greatness is to mix with the great.
- Gilbert Highet (Man's Unconquerable Mind)