Scott Westerfeld Quotes

The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

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• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Lies

• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• Robots are good at things that are structured.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Good
  • Things
  • Robots

• The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• Everything begins with an idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Idea
  • Everything
  • Begins

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • School
  • Age
  • Learn

• My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • She
  • Everyday

• In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Society
  • Peace
  • Trust

• Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Same
  • Behavior
  • Frontier

• My fans have always loved my metaphors.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Always
  • Fans
  • Loved

• Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Dark

• I constantly look like a miserable bitch.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls

• Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Society
  • Free

• When we started, there were KRAFTWERK and TANGERINE DREAM, and both bands also became very very strong internationally but in a different area, in a different field. They were doing, like, experimental kind of music, and KRAFTWERK were amazing, while we played just traditional rock.

  

  Klaus Meine Scorpions
  • Music
  • Different
  • Dream

• For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

  

  John Milton
  • Stories
  • Liberty
  • Season

• Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Honor

• I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth. I learnt the truth last November - on the third of November, to be precise - and I remember every instant since.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Remember

• The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Strands