Charles Stross Quotes

I wasn’t exaggerating the national suspicion toward strangers. It’s a survival trait on New Dresden; they’ve been breeding for paranoia for centuries.

Charles Stross

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• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Stories
  • Tennis
  • Brilliant

• I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • American
  • Want

• I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Me

• It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Hatred
  • Israel
  • Decade

• In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Being
  • Nation
  • Unfortunate

• I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • More
  • My Own

• As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Thought

• Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Science
  • Mean
  • Act

• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Most
  • Failed
  • Some

• Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Growing
  • Space

• I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Enjoy
  • Actors
  • Working

• I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • High
  • Always
  • New York

• People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Stop
  • Coffee

• People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So – no.'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Thoughts
  • Sun

• When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

  

  Eckhart Tolle

• All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Joy

• When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Power
  • Value

• These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Children
  • College
  • Independent

• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Free
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• You have just constructed a straw man so large you could burn it in the desert and hold an annoying festival around it.

  

  John Oliver
  • Desert
  • Annoying

• Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving.

  

  Anne McKevitt
  • Life
  • Scale
  • Thriving

• I wasn’t exaggerating the national suspicion toward strangers. It’s a survival trait on New Dresden; they’ve been breeding for paranoia for centuries.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Survival