Christopher Quotes

He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves.

A question asked in earnest, deserves an earnest answer.

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.

Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse. This is what racism can do to people.

They, who continue to stay turned to watch their past mistakes, will miss the potential successes of the future.

Hell is just a frame of mind.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be.

Karma and Hell are the cowards revenge

How terrible, " said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to

No, he said, we are not alone. I have you, and you have me. And there is Arya and Nasuada and Orik, and many others besides who will help us along our way.

Zach had once heard the president described as "the most dangerous narcissist alive, because the world really does revolve around him.

Do you think it's really the Boogeyman that killed Brent? You think it's back?""I sincerely hope not.""When you say things like that, I start to cry a little on the inside.

It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death.

Everyone loves a dead artist. It’s the living ones that people can’t tolerate.

You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?""It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize.""Must be a human thing.""Exactly.

With nature on your side, you don’t need numbers, you don’t need financing and you certainly don’t need to make friends with people you should be fightingagainst.

But she's a redhead, so she's probably evil, even at her tender age.""I thought you liked redheads.""I do. What's your point?

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.

Even if only one person’s respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile.

Despair is something horribly simple.

If you work your hardest and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.

In the realm of dream and imagination all men are equal.

Oh, he was a decent-enough high school student, good grades and well-liked, but his test scores were nothing to write home about. He might as well have Christmas-treed the math test.

I guess whoever built and buried that IED out there in the desert will never know how far that blast traveled. But all things ripple out, cause shrapnel.

All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age.

I’ve always looked like this—in between. Is there ever an age when a person looks exactly like themselves?

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.

I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.

Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry, ' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

War pacifies itself.

Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted].

Mankind made up a version of reality we could all live in.

If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.

Well, I've got tomorrow morning off, so I thought I might spend that thinking about her. Basically, my plan is to maybe just romantically obsess over her but not really do anything about it.

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.

In the time that man has been here there is one thing that all have seen and gazed upon in wonder. Luna.

The greatest war we fight is the one within ourselves.

Those teetering on madness hold keys to doors you know nothing about. You must ask yourself if these rooms are worth visiting—if in the end life would have made more sense having been in them.

For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.

I'm poor and my cat is huge.

The cat arrived with a bottle of Scotch.

So Nikki came aboard as Jaqueline's spare cat, presumably in case our prime cat, Eliza, goes on vacation, takes industrial action, or requests a personal day.

i love walking in the rain because no one knows im dying

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

Healthy and non-shaming mirroring is an important part of the process. We can gain this from a highly emotionally intelligent and effective peer group that has our best interests at heart.