Richard Scott Bakker Quotes

Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

Richard Scott Bakker

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• I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Trust
  • End

• Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Living
  • Duty

• Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Great
  • Religion
  • Sin

• In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Equality

• I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Bad
  • Want
  • End

• Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he's fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he's in great condition. He's a thinking fighter.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Win

• I did a job. I completed my Matric and my Bachelors. I did a marketing job. I worked as a bus hostess. I did a lot of jobs; I struggled a lot. I got out from there. The first thing I did when I got out of Darul Aman was my Matric. Then I did my Bachelors privately; I kept doing it.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Job
  • Doing
  • Marketing

• We are not working out issues anymore. We are working on a parallel universe, with competing proposals, up or down votes.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Up
  • Universe

• All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Free

• The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Breakfast

• People dancing all in the streetSee the rhythm all in their feetLife is good, wild and sweet.Let the music play on (play on, play on)Feel it in your heartAnd feel it in your soulLet the music take control.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • Words
  • Water
  • Fire

• Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it - at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Today
  • Air

• Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Abuse

• They were very much the same, each attempting to force his picture of reality upon me and neither giving a hoot in hell for how things looked to me.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Reality
  • Giving
  • Picture

• Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Character

• You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

  

  Christopher Meloni

• Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Soul
  • Food

• You don't run a marathon with one step.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Step
  • Marathon

• It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Development

• The quality I most loved in Warhol - it was his sense of wonder. I mean, he was - absolutely everything was, 'Oh my God, isn't that wonderful!'. You know, and so it wasn't that he was cool and kind of calculated at all. He was very childlike.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • God
  • Quality
  • Cool

• A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

  

  Homer
  • Treated
  • Guest
  • Forgets

• Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

  

  Richard Scott Bakker