Alatriste Quotes & Sayings

Between the emotion and the response falls the shadow, T.S. Eliot said, — Niall Williams

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day. — Howard Rheingold

[Nabokov's] language is made visible ... like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind. — Jerzy Kosinski

The Pope also said that while he's in town he would like to go see 'The Book of Mormon.' — David Letterman

Don't forget what people intend to use for harm, God can use for His greater good. Let offenses slide today, and watch how God works! — Alisa Hope Wagner

I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can. — Elbert Hubbard

I can still picture the two sisters sitting together on the terrace, well wrapped up against the chill, one with her terminal cancer, the other with her cardiac asthma and arthritis, envy and resentment forgotten as they faced the great equalizer of death. — P.D. James

He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases — Hjalmar Soderberg

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats? — Christopher Fry

Everyone is connected but everyone is not attached and this is a global issue of the same scale as global warming or the race to Mars. — Mayank S. Sengar

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. — Edward FitzGerald

It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase. — Angela Ruggiero

It's been well-thumbed, at least triple-read, there's that smell the fat orange-spine Penguins get when their pages have yellowed and the book bulges, basically the smell of complex humanity, sort of sweat and salt and endeavour. Like all the fat orange Penguins, it gets fatter with reading, which it should, because in a way the more you read it the bigger your own experience of the world gets, the fatter your soul. — Niall Williams

It was one of Diego Alatriste's virtues that he could make friends in Hell. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

It is often thought that spirits in the after-world do not breathe as we might do - and that in being dead, one does not require inhaling and exhaling anything.
Well, they do exchange ethers, and the body of a soul does in fact breathe, and talk and sing - though not with oxygen, but a rarefied vitality. And just as a newborn, the very first impulse that comes when one crosses over to the other side, past the veils of death, is to inhale deeply - and then relax. — Gabriel Brunsdon