“Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“ليس هناك والله خوف أعظم نت خوف الانسان حين لا يعرف السبب”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“Herger said to me, "Be thankful, for you are fortunate."
I inquired the source of my fortune. Herger said in reply, "If you have the fear of high places, than this day you shall overcome it; and so you shall have faced a great challenge; and so you shall be adjudged a hero.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“تتوقف الأشياء الغربية عن أن تكون كذلك بفعل التكرار”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“...thus do strange things cease to be strange upon repetition.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“يجب أن يكون الانسان حكيما باعتدال ولكن ليس مفرط الحكمة حتى لا يعرف قدره مسبقا”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“In the eyes of all of them was the hollow stare of fear, and there was hollowness in their merriment, too.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“Yet I have discovered that if all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief...”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“يردد أهل الشمال مثلا شعبيا يقول : " انظر خلفك " وهم يعتقدون بأن على كل انسان أن يكون مهيئا دائما لان يدافع عن نفسه”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“You have done the work of a mere man," the tengol continued, “and not a proper hero. A hero does what no man dares to undertake.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“وأخيرًا قلتُ لهرغر: المطر بارد.
فضحك ثم قال: كيف يمكن أن يكون المطر باردًا؟! أنت البارد وأنت التعيس! أما المطر فليس باردًا ولا تعيسًا.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“Herger said to me, “Be thankful, for you are fortunate.” I inquired the source of my fortune. Herger said in reply, “If you have the fear of high places, then this day you shall overcome it; and so you shall have faced a great challenge; and so you shall be adjudged a hero.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“The meaning of these discoveries has not yet been sorted out, but it is certainly now impossible to regard the prehistoric Europeans as savages idly”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“The meaning of these discoveries has not yet been sorted out, but it is certainly now impossible to regard the prehistoric Europeans as savages idly awaiting the blessings of Eastern civilization.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“A gain I saw that under the sun the race is
not to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise,
nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to men of skill
but time and chance happen to them all.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, quote from Time and Chance
“At some point the choice you will face is whether to carry out your duties or live your life”
― Cayla Kluver, quote from Legacy
“He stood on the sand watching the double sunset as first one and then the other of Tatooine's twin suns sank slowly behind the distant range of dunes. In the fading light the sands turned gold, russet, and flaming red-orange before advancing night put the bright colors to sleep for another day.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“We hide our feelings, we hide our past, we hide our true intentions. There's no way to know what's real anymore.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“I promise to write your story, I’m sorry I stopped. I’ll write you the best story, I-I’ll make you a classic, the most famous ever and you’ll never die!”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
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