Blackard Modern Quotes & Sayings

Like all security, privacy is hard. — Cory Doctorow

Since Cervantes's magnificent Knight's quest has cosmological scope and reverberation, no object seems beyond reach. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

You reach a certain age when reality grabs you by the scruff of the neck and shouts in your face:"Hey, look, this is what life is." And you have to open your eyes and look at it, listen to it, smell it: people who don't like you, things you don't want to do, things that hurt, things that scare you, questions without answers, feelings you don't understand, feelings you don't want but have no control over.
Reality.
When you gradually come to realise that all that stuff in books, films, television, magazines, newspapers, comics - it's all rubbish. It's got nothing to do with anything. It's all made up. It doesn't happen like that. It's not real. It means nothing. Reality is what you see when you look out of the window of a bus: dour faces, sad and temporary lives, millions of cars, metal, bricks, glass, rain, cruel laughter, ugliness, dirt, bad teeth, crippled pigeons, little kids in pushchairs who've already forgotten how to smile ... — Kevin Brooks

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. — Elie Wiesel

Teenagers, as everyone knows, tend to believe they are immortal. — Jessica Warman

Gratitude is usually generated in one of two ways. One, by feeling a genuine appreciation for the life that you were given and, two, by making a conscious decision to practice looking at what's right in your life rather than focusing on what's missing. — Alex Green

The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in. — Joyce Meyer

The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him. — Alfred Adler

It's that tingle in my stomach, that lump in my throat and that smile on my face that tell me I am part of an incredible team. — Kristine Lilly

Living means constantly growing closer to death. Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet. — Jackie Morse Kessler

The independence of art from worldview and worldview concerns is a myth. Every work of art is produced within a framework of worldview assumptions. — Douglas Wilson

Cunning is a short blanket
if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet. — Austin O'Malley

Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant ... The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives. — Derek Landy