“Here was a man, when comes such another?”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Sons of Fortune
“Just as soon as I get this cast off," Fletcher said, "I'm going to kick your ass."
"You shouldn't speak to Dr Renwick like that, after all he's done for you," said Nat, with a grin.
"Why not?" asked Fletcher. "He filled me up with your blood, so now I'm half the man I was."
"Wrong again," said Nat. "You're twice the man you were, but still half the man I am.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Sons of Fortune
“Challenge every writ, and let it not be said of you, I walked a path but never left an imprint.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Sons of Fortune
“Doesn't ability to do the job come into the equation?"
"Of course not, you fool," said Jimmy. "This is politics.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Sons of Fortune
“You've made yourself more available than a whore in a Las Vegas casino.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Sons of Fortune
“Right now what I need to think about is what would be possible, not all the reasons I can't make a change.”
― John Wood, quote from Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
“I have come to accept myself for what I am: human. I am not perfect. I am not immune to fate, but I am not automatically doomed for being alive. I feel temptations every second of every day and I am not controlled by them. I do what I want anyway, so who is to say I want anything else? When I want, I let these peculiarities run across me like dogs to their masters. When I do not, I keep them at bay with my will and my testimony. I do not cut myself off from what makes me feel; I just refuse to feel anything that cuts me off from what matters most. It is called will power. With a little practice, you can accomplish great things.”
― Corey Taylor, quote from Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
“وحدى أنا الآن الطريق مظلم مظلم أتعثر لا أعرف كيف و لا أهتم
الطريق على ما يبدو يقود إلى لا مكان ، ليس ثمة ضوء يرشدنى
لكن الصباح جاء أخيرا جاء ووجدت انى كبرت و أصبحت نفسى”
― Jerome K. Jerome, quote from Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“O you gods, what a number of
men eat Timon, and he sees 'em not! It grieves me
to see so many dip their meat in one man's blood;
and all the madness is, he cheers them up too.
I wonder men dare trust themselves with men:
Methinks they should invite them without knives;
Good for their meat, and safer for their lives.
There's much example for't; the fellow that sits
next him now, parts bread with him, pledges the
breath of him in a divided draught, is the readiest
man to kill him: 't has been proved. If I were a
huge man, I should fear to drink at meals;”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Timon of Athens
“The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Great North Road
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