David Eddings · 800 pages
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“Refusing to talk about something wouldn’t make it go away. If it was there, it was there, and no amount of verbal acrobatics could make it go away.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“...most people need to believe in something. There are a few who don't, but they're a bit unusual.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“You’d think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“Degrur, that doesn’t make any sense at all.” “I just woke up,”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“Just because I love her, it doesn't mean that I love you less.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Other stories never end, maybe because they’re alive.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“doesn’t make any sense,” he said. It was all he could do, however, to keep from throwing the dreadful sheet into”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“Bheid and Leitha, but he didn’t say anything.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“You’d think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.' ~Althalus”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“ان رجلا يتهرب من تحمل مسؤولية عمل ويبحث دائما عمن يغطيه ليس له من الرجولة أكثر من الأسم , انه جبان . بل حقير . والأمة التى يكون زعمائها من هذا الطراز لا تلبس أن تعانى أوخم النتائج.”
― Adolf Hitler, quote from Mein Kampf
“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
― Flannery O'Connor, quote from Wise Blood
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. ”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from VALIS
“I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.”
― Malcolm X, quote from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“The word hope first appeared in English about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. But what I desired—life—was not what I was confident about—death. When I talked about hope, then, did I really mean “Leave some room for unfounded desire?” No. Medical statistics not only describe numbers such as mean survival, they measure our confidence in our numbers, with tools like confidence levels, confidence intervals, and confidence bounds. So did I mean “Leave some room for a statistically improbable but still plausible outcome—a survival just above the measured 95 percent confidence interval?” Is that what hope was? Could we divide the curve into existential sections, from “defeated” to “pessimistic” to “realistic” to “hopeful” to “delusional”? Weren’t the numbers just the numbers? Had we all just given in to the “hope” that every patient was above average? It occurred to me that my relationship with statistics changed as soon as I became one.”
― Paul Kalanithi, quote from When Breath Becomes Air
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