Ciguapa Quotes & Sayings

I wish with all my soul his wife may plague his heart out. — Jane Austen

The truth is, the abyss lives in us. In our greed. In the way we look at things different to us, and see things lesser. In the way we see the smaller, or the weaker, and think them prey.

It begins with the beasts of the land, the birds of the sky. And in a blinking, we find ourselves seeing our lessers in people with different colored skins. Different gods. Different creeds. We see them as lessers, and we hurt, and we kill, and we think nothing of it. Because they are different, we think ourselves just. Because we are stronger, we think ourselves righteous.

That is the abyss in all of us. And we stand close to the edge still. Closer than any can dream. We need but stray for a moment and we will find ourselves back again, staring down into that black. And who will save us? When everything that was different to us is already gone? — Jay Kristoff

And the maximum number extracted. You know what your bosses say about attachment, littl'un. Don't get too attached to me. — Karen Traviss

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science. — Paul Davies

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. — Emma Goldman

Keep in mind that if you never answer the door, people will stop knocking. — Abby Fabiaschi

Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price. — Robert Harris

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country would sink giggling into the sea. — John O'Sullivan

Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion. — Suzanne Collins

I think of the meaning of the word "testimony." Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake. — Alice Walker

Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind — Robert Hunter

If the industrial era was about building things, the social era is about connecting things, people and ideas. — Nilofer Merchant