“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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“«Chiedo una guerra contro il governo della repubblica di Smeraldo», disse, «che ostacola insolentemente l’egemonia dei nostri salami e dei nostri prosciutti su tutti i mercati dell’universo.» «Chi è quel deputato?», chiese il dottor Obnubile. «È un salumiere.» «Ci sono obiezioni?» chiese il presidente. «Metto la proposta ai voti.» La guerra contro la repubblica di Smeraldo fu votata per alzata di mano a grande maggioranza. «Come?», esclamò Obnubile rivolto all’interprete. «Hanno approvato una guerra con tanta rapidità e indifferenza?» «Oh! È una guerra di poca importanza che costerà solo otto milioni di dollari.» «Ma le perdite...» «Le perdite sono comprese negli otto milioni di dollari.» Allora il dottor Obnubile si prese la testa fra le mani e pensò amaramente: «Visto che la ricchezza e la civiltà sono fonti di guerre, non meno della povertà e della barbarie, visto che la follia e la cattiveria degli uomini sono inguaribili, rimane solo una buona azione da compiere. Il saggio ammucchierà tanta dinamite quanto basta a far saltare in aria questo pianeta. Quando volerà in pezzi nello spazio, un miglioramento impercettibile si sarà verificato nell’universo e sarà concessa una soddisfazione alla coscienza universale, che d’altra parte non esiste».”
― Anatole France, quote from Penguin Island
“56 percent of learned information is forgotten within an hour of being encoded. By the time one day has passed, another 10 percent is gone. A month after the information is learned, 80 percent of it has vanished. How”
― Michelle Richmond, quote from The Year of Fog
“Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Dead to You
“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, quote from The Wisdom of Life
“Carlos Castaneda said, “We can make ourselves miserable, or we can make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
― Timber Hawkeye, quote from Buddhist Boot Camp Manuscript
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