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The Who Quotes (page 117)

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards. C. S. Lewis
The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense. C. S. Lewis
Cormac McCarthy quote: "The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate..."
The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them. Cormac McCarthy
William Blake quote: "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water,..."
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. William Blake
Jane Austen quote: "The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a..."
The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage! Jane Austen
The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity.---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss Brian Aldiss
The number of people who could deliver a kick to the balls with Aomame's mastery must have been few indeed. She had studied kick patterns with great diligence and never missed her daily practice. Haruki Murakami
James Allen quote: "The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going"
The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going James Allen
The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. Ray Bradbury
The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to admire) is about love and death, while mere popular fiction like this is about sex and violence. One reader's sex, alas, is another's love; and one's violence, another's death. Gene Wolfe
Sidney Sheldon quote: "the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who..."
the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment. Sidney Sheldon
The tyrant is a child of Pride. Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong. He plummets to the dust of hope. Sophocles
The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleep. Paid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own life. Loses, loses: I have killed for my world, and am free. Randall Jarrell
The novel is a more diffused form and more suited to those who like to linger along the way; it also requires a more massive energy. Flannery O'Connor
The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening,” Miss Pao said, “regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique.” (describing a young man who flew off a bicycle at high speed) Neal Stephenson

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