Nightcatcher Quotes & Sayings

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart. — Hugh Reginald Haweis

In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource. — Jakob Nielsen

We must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world. — Amartya Sen

Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid. — Edward Bernds

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect. — Robert Greene

Finesse, my ass. I'm a warrior, not your child bride. — Andrea Cremer

I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles. — Steven Wright

So unbelief alone commits sin..Hence Christ calls unbelief the only sin. — Martin Luther

we can develop willpower skills. It's more about strategy than grit or impulses. While we can't control what we think and feel, we can control what we do - which is where strategy comes into play. — Ted Spiker

When you lose your face ... , it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it. — Amy Tan

Remember that if I were born of the underworld, you were born of flowers. You are the blood the forest feeds upon, and it is you who gave the woods their dark magic. Time doesn't exist, and in another world I never left you. I've transformed your wounds into a scepter for a queen. The nightcatcher may think that she's had her victory - but your veins are buried in the map of the earth and she can never have you. She thinks she can own the universe because she's enslaved gods and eaten stars, but she couldn't even kill me, living here in her tunnels, because you protected me with your love. — Autumn Christian

At the age of seventeen, Napoleon's religious views started to coalesce, and they did not change much thereafter. Despite being taught by monks, he was never a true Christian, being unconvinced by the divinity of Jesus. He did believe in some kind of divine power, albeit one that seems to have had very limited interaction with the world beyond its original creation. Later he was sometimes seen to cross himself before battle,77 and, as we shall see, he certainly also knew the social utility of religion. But in his personal beliefs he was essentially an Enlightenment sceptic. — Andrew Roberts

She was the golden thread running through everything, a lens that magnified beauty so that the whole world stood transfigured in relation to her, and her alone. — Donna Tartt

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down. — Stephen Malkmus

It's a lovely thing to be able to sing. — Luke Evans