Rick Yancey Quotes
The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us.
Quotes to Explore
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.
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Looks like that's the character of what we have right now.
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God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
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Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
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I want to be part of the human race I want to live, breathe.
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Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.
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Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.
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I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.
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I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.
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The problem is that you're creating a system of bubble finance where interest rates are so low that people can speculate. An asset value goes up. You put it up as collateral. You borrow against it. You buy more of the asset. You then take the rising asset. You borrow against it again. This is the nature of what's going on in the world. This isn't an excess of real savings. This is an excess of artificial credit that's being fueled by all the central banks.
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Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.
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Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being.
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The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
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People are not unattainable anymore and the borders of the world are open. It’s also nice to see that there are many people, especially from the newer generations, that want to have a positive impact on our society and take matters into their own hands.
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The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us.
