“Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.”
― John Twelve Hawks, quote from The Traveler
“Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.”
― John Twelve Hawks, quote from The Traveler
“Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality. ”
― John Twelve Hawks, quote from The Traveler
“I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.”
― John Twelve Hawks, quote from The Traveler
“You don´t need to watch everyone if everyone believes they're beeing watched. (...) Punishment isn't necessary, but the inevitability of punishment has to be programmed into the brain.”
― John Twelve Hawks, quote from The Traveler
“No one seems to realize how immense consciousness really is. It ties us to the rest of the universe.”
― John Twelve Hawks, quote from The Traveler
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“Human beings- I've observed- are hot-wired for score keeping, and since they like to win, they're always going one better than the other fellow.”
― Margaret Atwood, quote from The Tent
“Why did the ibis cross the Nile?” She nodded, shivering. He laughed, a deep, rumbling laugh. “To get to the other side, of course.” As”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, quote from You Have to Stop This
“Searching for a perfect love is not easy to find,but having the love of our God is more perfect than what you have found".”
― quote from Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance
“La certitude d'avoir empêche de désirer.”
― Émile Zola, quote from The Ladies' Paradise
“You're my home. I will find you.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, quote from Special Forces - Soldiers
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