Viravan Ltd Quotes & Sayings

Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off his palms by running them lightly down his sides. As though he were going to shake hands with somebody.
He was. He was going to shake hands with death.
He wasn't particularly frightened. Not that he was particularly brave. It was just that he didn't have very much imagination. Rationalizing, he knew that he wasn't going to be alive anymore ten minutes from now. Yet he wasn't used to casting his imagination ten minutes ahead of him, he'd always kept it by him in the present. He couldn't visualize it. So he wasn't as unnerved by it as the average man would have been.
("3 Kills For 1") — Cornell Woolrich

Evil was the most contagious of diseases, so virulent that no herb, surgery, or dream-humor could cure it. One's sense of what was normal, acceptable, became distorted by proximity to wrongness; entire nations had succumbed this way, first to decadence, then collapse. — N.K. Jemisin

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry. — Vladimir Arnold

We've got to run," I said. "I don't suppose you mean away," Grover murmured hopefully. — Rick Riordan

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold — Mahmoud Darwish

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions. — Joseph Crowley

Sex and violence ... are the two great engines of the world. — James Carlos Blake

One of the first steps toward successful leadership in the human realm is asking ourselves this question, "When people draw near us, do they recognize that we know God? — Teresa Hampton

Pause today and notice something you have worked hard on and recognize yourself for it. Acknowledge your effort. — Kristin Armstrong