Charles Stross Quotes

Ultimately, it was easier to change the subject than think the unthinkable.

Charles Stross

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• I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Family
  • Faith
  • Community

• I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Great
  • Educate
  • Craft

• I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Audience
  • Books

• Rice cakes and peanut butter is my favorite snack in the whole wide world.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • World
  • Snack
  • Peanut Butter

• In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • You
  • Community
  • Chinese

• I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Time
  • Always
  • Something

• The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Woman
  • Most
  • Humiliating

• A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Family
  • May
  • Humble

• Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Democratic

• It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Sound
  • Determined
  • Rebellion

• I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Love
  • You
  • Days

• Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Justice
  • Decisions
  • Agree

• Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Responsibility

• Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Focus
  • Challenge

• I'm just worried that there's enough beer on the bus. That's the top priority at all times.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Enough
  • Priority
  • Beer

• I hate the past - especially my own past.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Past
  • Hate
  • Own

• I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Cost

• Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Time

• I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

  

  Ned Beatty
  • Depression

• I believe in the American dream. I don't want anyone to take advantage of it, and I don't want anyone to ruin it, especially people who are not grateful to be here, who seemingly hate us and call us racists.

  

  Jeanine Pirro
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• I hope that by just being a competent member and expressing informed views on issues that aren't related to issues of LGBT equality, Republicans see me as a general asset.

  

  Mark Takano
  • Hope
  • Equality

• Ultimately, it was easier to change the subject than think the unthinkable.

  

  Charles Stross