Viacheslav Petrov Quotes & Sayings

Then she was there in the doorway of the ambulance at his feet. She jumped up like a lion, then stood up on two feet like a human. Her hair was thick and full. She had a mouthful of giant teeth. He could see four pronounced canines in the front and strong claws where her fingernails had been. Her strong body was shriveled and emaciated with her ribs and hip bones sticking out prominently like a concentration camp victim. Her stench was overpowering, like a deer carcass left to rot on the side of the road. — Joseph M. Chiron

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it. — Ezra Koenig

Sorry to disappoint you. He's not evil. He's just a jerk. Sometimes it's a fine line. — Kami Garcia

For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure. — Adam Mansbach

He is not angry now; knives are not angry. He is not tearful now; knives are not tearful. He is simply sharp and keen and inevitable. — Clive Barker

Once a sarriyal, always a sarriyal, she thought. — Sara Naveed

In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force. — George W. Bush

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton

The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs - would end up magnifying each other's sins rather than keeping each other in check. — Bethany McLean

For years afterward when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the cold slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it. Eleanor was, say, the last time that evil crept close to Amory under the mask of beauty, the last weird mystery that held him with wild fascination and pounded his soul to flakes. — F Scott Fitzgerald

And Laurie was Tate's Elise. He had Jonas, so she wasn't his everything, but that didn't mean she didn't make up half his world. Once half of your world was torn from you, you could live to be a hundred and never build it back up. Never. — Kristen Ashley

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do. — Marty Rubin

You think I'm finished, so you're leaving me to be crucified by every piece of shit journalist in the fucking country. — Clive Barker

Dedicated to anyone who has weaknesses, and finds the strength to overcome them. — Cassie Mae