Hanaan Quotes & Sayings

He took another steps backward, right into the horse of the Cokyrian soldier we had avoided earlier, bouncing off to land gracelessly upon the ground on his rear end. He stared up at the woman, making no attempt to stand.
"Your horse is very solid," he slurred. "Congratultions on having such a fine mount. — Cayla Kluver

Then he went into the dining room, consulting his watch. It was ten thirty already. More than half the morning was gone. More than half the time for sitting and trying to write the prose that would make people sit up and gasp. It happened that way more often now than he would even admit to himself. Sleeping late, making up errands, doing anything to forestall the terrible moment when he must sit down before his typewriter and try to wrench some harvest from the growing desert of his mind. ("Mad House") — Richard Matheson

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact — Jacques Ellul

It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it. — Jack Dorsey

I told myself that I'll do everything within my power to never let that happen again. — Andre Ward

He doesn't back down under my accusations. Instead he leans in, his big frame curving over me like a wave. "I would do all that and more." His tone betrays a carefully restrained ferocity, and I see in him, shifting and fluttering, behind his eyes the monster I've always known is there. It makes my breath catch, the beautiful horror of it. He doesn't try to hide it, if anything he leans in closer, filling my vision until he fills the world. Him and his dark devil's eyes. — Eliza Crewe

The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it's the purpose of historians to say, 'No! It's very complicated.'
The job of the historian is to help give people a sense of existence in time, without which we are really not fully human. — David Cannadine

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system. — Richard Dawkins

I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you. — Mekhi Phifer

When you're up to your ass in alligators, you forget about cleaning the swamp. — Robert DeBard

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book. — Emily Dickinson

God should be sought, but we cannot find God. We can only be found by him. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you.
The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic. — Chuck Palahniuk

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too. — Clive Thompson