Upscaled Texture Quotes & Sayings

Do you know why they [demons] hate us so much, Alfred? Because of hope.

They have none, and so they hate us for it. — Rick Yancey

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. — Robert Greene

Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now. — Allan Massie

Work ethic, first; structure, second; and skill, third — Don Solin

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime. — Hillary Clinton

I did not like the thing in me which he had been able to seduce. — Christa Wolf

Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him. — Arthur Miller

Voluntary memory, the memory of the intellect and the eyes, [gives] us only imprecise facsimiles of the past which no more resemble it than pictures by bad painters resemble the spring. ... So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it, but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated, and similarly we think we no longer love the dead, because we don't remember them, but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears. A — Alain De Botton

True joy comes only from God and He shares this joy with those who walk in fellowship with Him. — Jerry Bridges

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income. — Dorothy Hamill