English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Tad Williams Quotes

As I continued through the streets, through the smoke of the burnings and the rubble of the fires and explosions--for during the chaos of the quarantine parts of the city had become something like war zones--my heart began to perceive that there was a wound in the material world that no amount of science could heal, that in fact science itself was only the helpful lie told to a dying man.

Tad Williams

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Philip Sidney quote: "The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance,..."
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. Philip Sidney
Eugene Cernan quote: "Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its..."
Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away? Eugene Cernan
T. S. Eliot quote: "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot
Roberto Rossellini quote: "I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in..."
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. Roberto Rossellini
John Jakes quote: "No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone,..."
No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck. John Jakes
Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style. Bill Laswell
James Cash Penney quote: "Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time."
Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time. James Cash Penney
Shirley Jackson quote: "Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the..."
Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. Shirley Jackson
Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect. Esther Dyson
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak. Oliver North
Jan Schakowsky quote: "The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas."
The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas. Jan Schakowsky
Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization. Swami Vivekananda
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it. Gregg Easterbrook
But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down. Suzanne Collins
Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood. William Allen White