Terribly Tiny Tales Quotes & Sayings

No anesthetic was necessary for the people who ordered the killings; they had the misleading language of technocratic bureaucracy to distance them from the killings. Thus "mass murder" becomes "the final solution," "world domination" becomes "defending the free world," the War Department becomes the Department of Defense, and "ecocide" becomes "developing natural resources." No one needs to get drunk to do any of this. A good strong ideology and heavy doses of rationalization are all it takes. But it may require little more than a simple unwillingness to step outside the flow of society, to think and act and most importantly experience for ourselves - and to make our own decisions. — Derrick Jensen

There is really nothing you can do easily: live or die or accept fame or money or defeat, it's all hard. — Charles Bukowski

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions — Ibrahim Ali

Had I ever been so terrified? Perhaps when Typhon raged across the earth, scattering the gods before him. Perhaps when Gaea unleashed her giants to tear down Olympus. Or perhaps when I accidentally saw Ares naked in the gymnasium. That had been enough to turn my hair white for a century. — Rick Riordan

Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.'" "Stupid — Rachel Caine

Profitable bookstores sell books. Unprofitable book sellers store books. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A word of the faith that never balks,
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all,
That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all. — Walt Whitman

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea. — John Green

Stand tall, laugh loudly, and be who you truly are — SARK

And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist. — Mineko Iwasaki

I wanted someone to know that before I started a life pretending to be less than everyone around me. — Ally Condie

Castle series are great, even James Patterson is out there! — Deyth Banger

Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns — William Dalrymple

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. — Mae West

My poor soul! Sigh, pray and strive to take upon you the blessed yoke of Christ, and you will live on earth in a heavenly manner. Lord, grant that I may carry the light and goodly yoke, and I shall be always at rest, peaceful, glad and joyous; and I shall taste on earth of crumbs which fall from the celestial feast, like a dog that feeds upon the crumbs which fall from the master's table. — Tikhon Of Zadonsk