“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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“Goradel frowned at that. “I don’t feel very expendable.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Mistborn Trilogy: The Hero Of Ages, The Well Of Ascension And The Final Empire
“Because falling in love is like the rain. You can’t always predict it and when you do it might never appear, but you can always see the signs of it before it falls.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Sweet Ache
“But the truly ambitious teams find relief in honesty when they’ve lost, because it’s the diagnostic tool that leads to a solution—here’s what we did wrong and let’s fix it, so we don’t ever have to feel this way again. Great teams explain their failure; they don’t excuse it. Then they pay a visit to Charles Atlas and get stronger. When you explain a loss aloud, it’s no longer a tormenting mystery. I believed in that brand of honesty my whole career, and I knew at least one other coach who believed in it too.”
― Pat Summitt, quote from Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
“Christofilos’s theoretical Astrodome-like shield was the hoped-for result of exploding a large number of nuclear weapons in space as a means of defending against incoming Soviet ICBMs. By Christofilos’s count, this likely meant “thousands per year, in the lower reaches of the atmosphere.” These explosions, he said, would produce “huge quantities of radioactive atoms, and these in turn would emit high-energy electrons (beta particles) and inject them into a region of space where the earth’s magnetic fields would trap and hold on them for a long time.” Christofilos figured that this electromagnetic field could last months, or perhaps longer, and that “the trapped electrons would cause severe radiation—and even heat damage—to anything, man or nuclear weapon, that tried to fly through the region.” In short, the idea was that the arming and firing mechanisms on the incoming Soviet ICBMs would be fried.”
― Annie Jacobsen, quote from The Pentagon's Brain
“That's how birthdays were in our house. All hateful charades of pretty clothes, expensive presents, and ugly words . . .”
― Debbie Howells, quote from The Bones of You
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The Human Stain
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