“Just because someone sees the truth doesn't mean they will accept it or allow that truth to change them.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner
“Just because the truth disturbs someone doesn't make speaking that truth hate speech.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner
“How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner
“When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others?”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner
“Nothing was worse than reading too late and falling asleep two or three pages into a novel.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner
“Make sure your soul is attached at all times - this town will steal it in a second, given the chance.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner
“You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner
Ted Dekker
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“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.
Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.”
― Flann O'Brien, quote from At Swim-Two-Birds
“She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from The Van Alen Legacy
“Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.”
― Malala Yousafzai, quote from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“–¡Un hombre de negocios no puede ser un burócrata! –le decía a Stephan Kistenmaker, de Kistenmaker & Hijos; y el que había sido su antiguo compañero de colegio, y seguía siendo su amigo, escuchaba con suma atención cada una de las palabras de Thomas, conscientes ambos de la mayor inteligencia de éste, para después repetirlas como una opinión propia–. Hay que tener carácter, ésa es mi opinión. No creo que pueda alcanzarse un gran éxito desde el escritorio de una oficina…, al menos a mí no me causaría ninguna satisfacción. El éxito no es sólo cuestión de cálculos sobre el papel… Yo siempre siento la necesidad de dirigir el curso de los acontecimientos en directo: con la mirada, la palabra y el gesto; que sea el resultado directo de mi voluntad, de mi talento, de mi suerte, si quieres llamarlo así. Claro que, por desgracia, se está perdiendo cada vez más esta forma de entender los negocios, esta intervención personal del comerciante… Los tiempos avanzan, pero, en mi opinión, están dejando atrás las mejores costumbres…”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
“theoretician, his reputation secured in probability-density functions”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
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