Alastair Reynolds Quotes

Rashmika could tell when anyone around her was lying. But seeing through her own deceptions was another matter entirely.

Alastair Reynolds

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• Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Liberty
  • Doors

• In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Play
  • Mom
  • Hollywood

• Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • World
  • Country
  • Age

• Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
  • Inevitable
  • Incredible

• Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Emotional
  • Teach

• I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • See

• If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • House
  • Go
  • Out

• I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Lunch

• Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Where
  • Fourth

• When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Parents
  • Story
  • Feet

• Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Family
  • Bad

• I don't need adult supervision.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Need
  • Adult
  • Supervision

• I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Fear
  • Reason
  • Calm

• When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Parents

• I'm a very impatient person. I love dancing, I love music, and I love eating life.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Life
  • Music
  • Person

• I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • World
  • Myself
  • Garden

• I'm nervous and awkward.

  

  Dylan O'Brien

• Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.

  

  William Morris
  • Life
  • Green
  • Knowing

• One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

  

  Edwin Moses
  • Competition

• When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

  

  Bob Woodward

• I use this GPB glycogen protein balancing conditioner by Aubrey Organics that I love.

  

  Andra Day

• Rashmika could tell when anyone around her was lying. But seeing through her own deceptions was another matter entirely.

  

  Alastair Reynolds