“How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“The hostile force! The reasone the barrier was established. "Astrophysics, do we know what's causing that?"
"No, sir," Bruno said cheerfully. "Not a clue".”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“Life's a bitch, then you rejuvenate and do it all over again.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“Only people with one short life want to go tearing out into the great unknown with nothing more than a flashlight and a stick to poke the rattlers with.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“he said that for wickedness to succeed all it takes is for decent people to do nothing.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“Three hundred and twenty-eight wormholes were opened in unison. They were small, all of them measuring a metre and a half wide. Just enough for a ten-megatonne warhead to pass through. The wormholes closed.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“The original castle back in Edinburgh was the seat of Scottish nationalism. It symbolized everything to the diehard believers. Despite all the changes and defeats they endured, the castle stood solid at the center of their capital. They waited for generations for the Scottish nation to be properly reborn after their Bonnie Prince was lost. There were times when the cause seemed impossible, or even cursed; they regained their independence from the English only to lose it again right away with the formation of Federal Europe.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“That was the trouble with freethinkers, they had overactive imaginations that made them uncertain.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“purpose; parents being tolerant or exasperated”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
Peter F. Hamilton
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“Whether it's his training or his natural disposition, Deacon is charming. The kind of charming that makes you feel like you're the only person in the world who matters. Until you don't anymore.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Remedy
“I know that I am lucky to be alive at the same time as you. I know that finding you was a cosmic needle in a haystack, a joke of Internet cables and telephone wires. But I also know that you are more afraid of opening up than losing me.”
― Trista Mateer, quote from The Dogs I Have Kissed
“Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”
― Michel de Montaigne, quote from The Complete Essays of Montaigne
“The only real failure is abandoning your principles. Killing what you love because you can’t bear to part from it is selfish and stupid. If your reputation can’t absorb a few blows, it wasn’t worth anything in the first place.”
― Ryan Holiday, quote from Ego Is the Enemy
“To her the earth was composed of hardships and insults. She felt instant admiration for a man who openly defied it. She thought that if the grim angel of death should clutch his heart, Pete would shrug his shoulders and say, "Oh, ev'ryt'ing goes."
She anticipated that he would come again shortly. She spent some of her week's pay in the purchase of flowered cretonne for a lambrequin. She made it with infinite care, and hung it to the slightly careening mantel over the stove in the kitchen. She studied it with painful anxiety from different points in the room. She wanted it to look well on Sunday night when, perhaps, Jimmie's friend would come. On Sunday night, however, Pete did not appear.
Afterwards the girl looked at it with a sense of humiliation. She was now convinced that Pete was superior to admiration for lambrequins.”
― Stephen Crane, quote from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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