“The accumulation of grief over one lifetime is more then one heart can bear."Robert explained."Only the heartless could withstand more.Or the very young,those too naive to truly understand loss.”
― James Rollins, quote from Bloodline
“The only one disappointed by the ease of entry was the team’s explosives and demolitions expert. “Aw, man,” Kowalski groused. “I was all set to blow some crap up.”
― James Rollins, quote from Bloodline
“On the existence and threat of modern-day secret societies: We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence . . . building a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. —JOHN F. KENNEDY, FROM A SPEECH GIVEN AT THE WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL ON APRIL 27, 1961”
― James Rollins, quote from Bloodline
“thousand years ago the average life expectancy of mankind was only twenty-five years. It took another nine hundred years to extend that to thirty-seven. Today the average is seventy-eight. So, in the past hundred years, we more than doubled life expectancy. That”
― James Rollins, quote from Bloodline
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“Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.”
― Dennis Lehane, quote from Gone, Baby, Gone
“These are friendly people,” I said, bending to begin work on his ankles. “Remind me to hit them a lot if I get the chance.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Ashes of Honor
“A sentimentalist is simply one who wants to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. We think we can have our emotions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing emotions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine. The intellectual and emotional life of ordinary people is a very contemptible affair. Just as they borrow their ideas from a sort of circulating library of thought—-the Zeitgeist of an age that has no soul—-and send them back soiled at the end of each week, so they always try to get their emotions on credit, and refuse to pay the bill when it comes in. You should pass out of that conception of life. As soon as you have to pay for an emotion you will know its quality, and be the better for such knowledge. And remember that the sentimentalist is always a cynic at heart. Indeed, sentimentality is merely the bank holiday of cynicism.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from De Profundis
“Mr. Biz! The shrewd and savage business shark,”
― Rachel Renée Russell, quote from Dork Diaries Book 5: Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All
“Dacă nu am avea arta de a exagera,am fi condamnaţi la o viaţă cumplit de plicticoasă,la o existenţă care n-ar mai merita trăită.Iar eu mi-am cultivat arta exagerării la culmi incredibile.Ca să facem inteligibil un lucru,suntem obligaţi să exagerăm;numai exagerarea e sugestivă,chiar riscul de a fi declaraţă măscărici nu ne mai jenează la maturitatee.Nu cunosc nimic mai bun decât să fii socotit măscărici la o vârstă înaintată.Cea mai maree fericire pe care o cunosc,este aceea a măscăriciului bătrân care îşi poate vedea de bufonada lui în deplină libertate.”
― Thomas Bernhard, quote from Extinction
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