Alastair Reynolds Quotes
'A splendidly inept thing,' Sylveste said, nodding despite himself.'What?''The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off-it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.'
Alastair Reynolds
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
U Thant
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Otto von Bismarck
I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
Natalie Imbruglia
I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
Samantha Power
Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
Fidel Castro
You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
J. Smith-Cameron
'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
Sam Heughan
Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.
Edna O'Brien
One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
Ann Landers
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
Wallace Shawn
It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.
Ellar Coltrane
'A splendidly inept thing,' Sylveste said, nodding despite himself.'What?''The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off-it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.'
Alastair Reynolds
