“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Windmills of the Gods
“Even when lightning flashes inside them [clouds], we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Windmills of the Gods
“If you believe in what you are doing, then you must fight for it. You must stay. Do not let anyone frighten you away.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Windmills of the Gods
“In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Windmills of the Gods
“It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Windmills of the Gods
“There were two sets of encyclopedias that had sections on rats. From them we learned that we were about the most hated animals on earth, except maybe snakes and germs.
That seemed strange to us, and unjust. [...] But people think we spread diseases, and I suppose possibly we do, though never intentionally, and surely we never spread as many diseases as people themselves do.”
― Robert C. O'Brien, quote from Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
“I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.”
― John le Carré, quote from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
― Rachel Carson, quote from Silent Spring
“Shura, I’m yours. You may not like it today, you may not want it tonight, you may wish for it all to be different now, but it remains, and I remain, as always, only yours. Nothing can change that. Not your wrath, your fists, your body or your death.”
― Paullina Simons, quote from Tatiana and Alexander
“Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it.
But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.
We are even free to choose the wrong thing.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Requiem
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