L J Smith Quotes
Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.
I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.
-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.
People don’t talk about mercy very much these days—it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary
Very touching, " said a voice from the stairway. "Do you want me to imitate a violin?" - Damon
It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to—or you ignored at your peril.
Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.
That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time
The quiet between them had gone on for far too long now to pretend it was anything other than what it was. There were no more words
There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.
The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know
Sometimes bad things that come in life aren’t necessarily bad things
The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.
The next 15 years are more important than the previous 15. The past is done
Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts
But freedom starts with honesty. We aren’t doing ourselves any favors by defining our- selves as good and others as bad. Let’s just agree that we all need help, that we are all in this together.
Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare.
He never had been good at arguing with women
Dear God, ’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.
There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.
And the memory made her humble
The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything
Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.
You can now interact with Sheriff Derrick Decker on Facebook. Just look up Derrick Decker!
What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the greatest right. We were tenants of this earth—nothing more.
This our worldly life is an activity of Nirvana itself
You are not responsible for the murderous rampage of an alien psycho, okay?
…there is faith and faith. One form of faith is actual practice—the rituals and so on—the other form of faith involves actually believing in it.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time
It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore
That just seems to be the way we’re built.