Steven Erikson Quotes

Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue - don’t you realize that?

Steven Erikson

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• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • War
  • Government
  • Gun

• It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Like
  • Audience
  • Wanted

• I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Contemporary

• Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Real

• Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Die

• Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.

  

  Leon Blum
  • World
  • Values
  • Fascism

• Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Earth

• For Arizonans, there's a particular connection because it was the U.S.S. Arizona and so on December 7, we have a lot of commemorations on the day of the attack, and it's a big part of Arizona life.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Attack
  • Arizona
  • Commemoration

• I loved playing for him. He brought me here to Brockton three years ago and I appreciate that he did. I hope things work out for him.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Playing

• Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Fault
  • Fearsome
  • Labrador

• Perhaps there were a few million dollars that might have been stolen in the process. But how many millions of dollars have we saved because we have re-established the stability of Canada by keeping it a united country?

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Process
  • Million
  • Stolen

• Lord Jesus Christ, you created me, you watched over me from infancy, kept my body from defilement, preserved me from love of the world, made me able to withstand torture, and granted me the virtue of patience in the midst of torments.

  

  Agatha of Sicily
  • Virtue
  • Patience
  • Created

• Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue - don’t you realize that?

  

  Steven Erikson
  • Virtue
  • Detachment
  • Flaw