Achjar Quotes & Sayings

Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask.
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss. — Suzanne Collins

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid. — Pat Frank

She can still feel the memory of what it was to be fully human, and mistake that ghost for honest sensation. — Peter Watts

What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How often have the frustrations of second-class citizenship and humiliating status led us into blind outrage against each other and the real cause and course of our dilemma been ignored? — Martin Luther King Jr.

If you will not choose a name," Mother Petra told five-year-old Girl from behind her enormous desk, "and if you will not answer to any we choose for you, then you will have no name at all." And — Claire Legrand

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo? — John Connolly

I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing ... I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day. — Benjamin Spock

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. — Louis L'Amour

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. — Samuel Johnson

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. — George Santayana

I remember growing up, saying you're an artist it sounds pretentious but now it's one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. — Marilyn Manson

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do. — George Balanchine

Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said. — Lev Artsimovich

What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified. — Nelson Goodman