Retinere Quotes & Sayings

The old Galactic Prime sat silent, mouth compressed, eyes burning like far volcanoes. At his feet the new Prime, Lord of Two Billion Suns, found a dead leaf, put it into his mouth, and began to chew. Afterword — Jack Vance

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important. — Tom Osborne

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane

Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary. — Peter Greenaway

He thinks it's his day, and when you think it's your day, it usually is. — Andre Agassi

People believe only what they want to believe. — Gayle Forman

Brains. Hearts. Lungs. Eyes. All pickled in some kind of home-brewed formaldehyde, — Ransom Riggs

I love 'The Vampire Diaries!' I can't help it - it's such a teeny-bopper show, but I think I just like it to stare at the guys. — Ashley Wagner

In the modern world there was so much safety that safety had become the chief source of danger. — Jeanette Winterson

Father, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

-I swore an oath...to honor the Compact, to bring justice to the Society of Man. You swore the same. But you forgot what that meant. Everyone has. That is why this world is broken. Maybe the next one can be better.-

-This world is the best we can afford.- — Pierce Brown

Only love begets love. — Anais Nin

The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility.
-Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy — Erik Larson

Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong for ever,' she said. 'This craze for motion has only set in during the last hundred years. It may be followed by a civilization that won't be a movement, because it will rest on the earth. All the signs are against it now, but I can't help hoping. — E. M. Forster