Maka Relate Quotes & Sayings

The Sniper must not be susceptible to emotions such as anxiety and remorse, — Craig Roberts

When you lost your brother, was there someone to comfort you?"
"Yes," said Laurent. "In a way."
"Then I'm glad," said Damen. "I'm glad that you weren't alone."
Laurent pushed himself away, up into a sitting position, and for a moment he sat, without speaking. He pushed his palms into his eye sockets.
"What is it?"
"It's nothing," said Laurent. — C.S. Pacat

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy. — Bill Drayton

Death, of course, like chastity, admits of no degree; a man is dead or not dead, and a man is just as dead by one means as by another; but it is infinitely more horrible and revolting to see a man shattered and eviscerated, than to see him shot. And one sees such things; and one suffers vicariously, with the inalienable sympathy of man for man. One forgets quickly. The mind is averted as well as the eyes. It reassures itself after that first despairing cry: "It is I!"
"No, it is not I. I shall not be like that."
And one moves on, leaving the mauled and bloody thing behind: gambling, in fact, on that implicit assurance each one of us has of his own immortality. One forgets, but he will remember again later, if only in his sleep. — Frederic Manning

Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he's a lover. — Joe Abercrombie

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude. — Susan Sontag

Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's a little soon to talk forever, don't you think?"
"If it scares you, I won't talk like that; but, no, I don't think it's too soon. Our past might have been rocky, but I think our future is inevitable. — Lynetta Halat