Classic Hannibal Lecter Quotes & Sayings

Seize the moment of happiness ... love and be loved. — Leo Tolstoy

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility. — Richelle E. Goodrich

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess. — Jose Raul Capablanca

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already. — John Kricfalusi

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them. — Imran Khan

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating. — John Green

the ultimate irrational prejudice of the human mind: the belief that the symbols of reality are more real than the reality they symbolize. That's us all over. We believe that money is more valuable than the work it represents, that sex is more essential than the love it expresses, that an actor is more admirable than the hero he portrays, that flesh is more alive than spirit. That's the whole nature of our deluded lives, the cause of so much of our misery. One by one, we let idolatry ruin each good thing. Without faith, we can't help ourselves. Without faith, we can no more see through our materialist prejudice than we can see through the big blue bowl of the sky and into the eternity beyond. The choice between idolatry and faith - which is ultimately the choice between slavery in the flesh and freedom in the spirit - is the only real choice we have to make. I — Andrew Klavan

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant. — William Pfaff

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 3.0 — Lewis Carroll

I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story. — Renzo Piano

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: I survived. Isn't that what matters? — Melissa Marr

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life. — Alec Guinness

The roar of the crowd began to grow. He heard them harmoniously stomping their feet in a rhythm that cried out for battle. Gabe glanced across the arena to several cages that were shielded by large cloaks. Whatever was inside was clearly becoming agitated by the noise of the crowd. The captive creatures began beating against the bars. Random secret shrieks and growls came from their general area. — Wendy Owens

For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible price. We've spent more than $5 trillion and thousands of American soldiers have died securing Middle East oil. — T. Boone Pickens

If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangerous days of the prarie or the plain, witness the reaction of a modern suburban family, nearly ready for bed, when the doorbell rings or the door is rattled. They will stop where they stand, or sit bolt upright in their beds, as if a streak of pure lightning has passed through the house. Eyes wide, voices fearful, they will whisper to each other, "There's someone at the door," in a way that might make you believe they have always feared and anticipated this moment - that they have spent their lives being stalked. — Alice McDermott