Apocalyptic Language Quotes & Sayings

On the hill behind her crows flew one by one into the bare trees, arranging their dark blots in the scrim of branches and adding their warnings to the drear sounds of this day. Gone, gone, they rasped. Here was a dead world learning to speak in dissonant, unbearable sounds. — Barbara Kingsolver

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little. — Carl Von Clausewitz

She was held for ransom. No one else was to be involved. Gabe paid up but didn't make it in time to release her from a coffin. They didn't keep their word. She suffocated, buried underground. — Lacey Silks

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing. — Daniel Day-Lewis

But here I was,quasi-boyfriend saying he wanted to take me on an actual date, and I was just staring at him impassively, like a horse watching a mime pretending to walk against the wind. — Maureen Johnson

Sin will do a number on you. — Johnny Hunt

We become what we habitually contemplate — George Russell

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price. — J.A. Konrath

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise. — Nicolaus Copernicus

I hate myself that I wasn't there for him. I hate that I could not feel it in him. How could I not know what had happened? How could I not hear it in his voice, his comments, or in his demeanor? He needed my help, and I couldn't feel it. — Melissa Seligman

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table. — John B. S. Haldane