Retrocedia Quotes & Sayings

You need me," Pen explained. "I'm your lookout. If I see the coppers coming, I'll make a sound like an owl. — Frances Hardinge

The shape does not change. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. you may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are like snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, ( ... ) but still unique. — Neil Gaiman

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help — Epicurus

If the law does not do justice, the people will mock the law. Vess — Sheri S. Tepper

The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost. — H.L. Mencken

He studied the room, looking for the Oracle, but he couldn't see anyone else in attendance - at least not anyone alive. — Shaun Jeffrey

An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others. — Edward Glaeser

Consciousness is simply the brain's neural response to its surrounding environmental stimuli. Hence when the neural circuits malfunction, Consciousness tends to malfunction as well. — Abhijit Naskar

With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated. — Jenny Shipley

Don't ever stop writing. This is the way the world will find out who you are. — R.J. Ellory

According to Lyubomirsky, the three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on increasing our happiness are our ability to reframe our situation more positively, our ability to experience gratitude, and our choice to be kind and generous. These — Dalai Lama XIV

Two hundred and fifty years is a long time ... Do you have any concept of what happens to emotional bonds over such a period? .... No. Your life experience cannot possibly encompass what it is to love the same person for two hundred and fifty years. In the end, if you endure, if you beat the traps of boredom and complacency, in the end what you are left with is not love. It is almost veneration. How then to match that respect, that veneration with the sordid desires of whatever flesh you are wearing at the time? I tell you, you cannot."
- Laurens Bancroft, "the client — Richard K. Morgan

The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; they will both fall into the ditch. — Lord Chesterfield

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency. — Avi Lewis