Arquizalasvillacuba Quotes & Sayings

The world that was the emonation of divine had been reduced to a handful of dust. Thousands of people, all caught in profile looked into their mobile fish tanks. Each face, each car, transporting grief, boredom, rage. Someone in one of these cars was contemplating murder. Someone, rite now, in the privecy of his aquarium, threaded the beads of his suicide through his fingers, praying along the chain like a rosary. Someone begged for help from a God he didnt quite believe in, yet had no one else to appeal to. — Janet Fitch

I didn't smoke often, and had never smoked before the apocalypse, but now I had more pressing health issues to worry about. — Andrew Cormier

I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other. — T. S. Eliot

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. — Joseph Heller

One of man's greatest obligations is anger. — Nikos Kazantzakis

These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere ... The Unnamable — Samuel Beckett

A man has a right to fear dangers that are less than likely to occur. — Milan Kundera

When I told you that I'd pray for you, what did you think I was talking about? — Nicholas Sparks

Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events. — Napoleon Bonaparte

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning. — Confucius

Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim? — Mary Cantwell

Love was only a ridiculous fairy tale that was never satisfying, warm, or safe. — Christina Lee

We would also have to say goodbye to the joy of watching this next generation soak up the massive quantities of love their grandmother would have given them, and seeing them learn that there was someone in the world who loved them as much as their parents did: a grandmother who was delighted by all their quirks and who thought they were the most amazing creatures on earth. — Will Schwalbe

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. — Adam Michnik