“Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Fall of Kings
“She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Fall of Kings
“I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf”
― David Gemmell, quote from Fall of Kings
“Hate is the father of all evil.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Fall of Kings
“I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Fall of Kings
“... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods”
― David Gemmell, quote from Fall of Kings
“We are fighting the greatest war the world has ever seen, and our likely future is death and ruins, and you are thinking about a women you love, instead of making battle plans. If this is what love can do to a man, perhaps you were better off without it.
He smiled to himself. I do not believe that, he thought.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Fall of Kings
“It is said that the gates of paradise can only be opened by the tears of those left behind. I do not know whether that be true. It should be, I think.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Fall of Kings
“We ought to call it something,’ said Banokles thoughtfully. ‘We can’t just keep calling it “that big bastard horse”. It ought to have a name.’ ‘What do you suggest?’ - ‘Arse Face.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Fall of Kings
“I tell you, one more insult and I’ll take his curling tongs and ram them so far up his arse he’ll be able to curl the damned thing from the inside.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Fall of Kings
“Fear cannot be trusted...It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Fall of Kings
“Beware the wooden horse, Agamemnon King, Conqueror, for it will roar to the skies on wings of thunder and herald the death of nations.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Fall of Kings
“Kassandra put her arm around her. “One day we will have no bones,” the girl said happily, “and our dust will swirl among the stars.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Fall of Kings
David Gemmell
Born place: in London, England, The United Kingdom
Born date August 1, 1948
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“Everyone in the room knew about leveraged buyouts, often called LBOs. In an LBO, a small group of senior executives, usually working with a Wall Street partner, proposes to buy its company from public shareholders, using massive amounts of borrowed money. Critics of this procedure called it stealing the company from its owners and fretted that the growing mountain of corporate debt was hindering America’s ability to compete abroad. Everyone knew LBOs meant deep cuts in research and every other imaginable budget, all sacrificed to pay off debt. Proponents insisted that companies forced to meet steep debt payments grew lean and mean. On one thing they all agreed: The executives who launched LBOs got filthy rich.”
― Bryan Burrough, quote from Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
“Outside, the rain was bucketing down. We ran along the street, laughing at the madness of it all, and burst into Reece’s, where we had to queue for the set lunch of soup, chicken and trifle. Reece’s had no licence so, when we finally got a table, we toasted ourselves with water. But we didn’t care: we were on a high. A full church wedding with all the extras couldn’t have made me happier.”
― Cynthia Lennon, quote from John
“The pen is a poor exchange for the long-barreled gun." "It does more execution, nevertheless,”
― Frederick Marryat, quote from The Children of the New Forest
“But there are many kinds of hunters engaged in the Pursuit of Happiness, and they go variously armed. It is the Inalienable Right of some among them, to take the field after THEIR Happiness equipped with cat and cartwhip, stocks, and iron collar, and to shout their view halloa! (always in praise of Liberty) to the music of clanking chains and bloody stripes.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from The Complete Works of Charles Dickens
“Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings”
― John Piper, quote from Don't Waste Your Life
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