“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven,”
― Anne McCaffrey, quote from All the Weyrs of Pern
“What has to be done can scarcely be termed heroic!” Master”
― Anne McCaffrey, quote from All the Weyrs of Pern
“teeth. It was her offering which Aivas was rejecting. ‘Of course,’ and she brightened, ‘we could keep some around to study and learn from, couldn’t we?’ She saw the horror and disgust of some of her colleagues. ‘No, I guess we couldn’t. Ah, well, back to microscope. My 98th batch of trials today.”
― Anne McCaffrey, quote from All the Weyrs of Pern
“Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation.”
― Anne McCaffrey, quote from All the Weyrs of Pern
“Are you glad, or sorry?” “About children?” She glanced at his face. He seemed to have no awareness of having hit a sore point dead on. “They just haven’t come my way, I guess.” The”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from Shards of Honour
“A country with two kings will always falter.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Behemoth
“If only we try to live righteously, we shall fare well, even though we are bound to encounter genuine sadness and real disappointments and shall probably commit real mistakes and do things that are wrong, but it is certainly better to be ardent in spirit, even though one makes more mistakes, than narrow-minded and overly-cautious.”
― Vincent van Gogh, quote from The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.”
― Patrick deWitt, quote from The Sisters Brothers
“scientific study and reflection had taught us that the known universe of three dimensions embraces the merest fraction of the whole cosmos of substance and energy.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
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