Dan Simmons Quotes
I began to understand. 'A Faustian bargain...,' I said.'The Faustian bargain,' said the girl. 'All the church had to do to gain the universe was sell its soul.'
Dan Simmons
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
Gautam Adani
'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. Hinton
America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
Olga Kurylenko
Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
Tariq Ramadan
Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
Felicity Kendal
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
Nancy Gibbs
I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
Rain
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
T. S. Eliot
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
Daniel Boone
I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
I don't particularly like L.A.
Walter Becker
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