Christopher Paolini Quotes

‘Then I guess we have no choice but to go forward. When have we ever had any choice but to go forward?’

Christopher Paolini

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• In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Real
  • Construction
  • Real estate

• The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Want
  • Sad
  • Leader

• I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.

  

  J. Cole
  • World
  • Money
  • Complacency

• The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Made

• The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Gold
  • Devil
  • Mud

• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • War
  • True

• I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Rest

• I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Up
  • Home
  • Relationship

• 'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

  

  Imelda May
  • Me
  • Company
  • Record

• Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rules is there will be at least one thing in every game that I worked on that no one on the planet has seen before.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Rules
  • Deserve

• I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Think
  • Agenda

• Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did Mike Brown, and his contract had ended after five years, and, ultimately, both sides decided they wanted to do other things. No hard feelings at all there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper; you can buy them with the press of a button.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • You
  • Press
  • Button

• Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • May
  • Character
  • Me

• In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Freedom
  • Evil
  • Religious

• I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident!

  

  Edie Sedgwick

• Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Believe
  • Pride

• Now I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • People

• I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Writing
  • Texas
  • Moved

• Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Death
  • Science
  • Mean

• When I come out to do my stand-up set, I pretty much get bombarded with lines from movies. You try to play off it a little bit, but that's what people want to see. Some clubs, the drunker the audience gets, the more they heckle.

  

  Kevin Heffernan
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • History
  • True

• People don't understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I was a multimillionaire. And I started with nothing. And I was on the road 10, 11 months a year.

  

  Jerry Weintraub
  • People
  • Time
  • Age

• ‘Then I guess we have no choice but to go forward. When have we ever had any choice but to go forward?’

  

  Christopher Paolini