E. P. Thompson Quotes

I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.

Tomorrow can take me, ” he said. “I don’t need today anyway.

I’m not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past...and our future. It’s a fact of life.

War?' The word held too much definition for three letters.

Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it.

...the truth was more powerful than a lie could ever be (Eric)

You used words, discarding them meaninglessly, without thinking, whereas I thought they held meaning. I found what you will never see: that my love resides on the other side of words. - Broken Places

I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for the people I had met and the people I had lost.

I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it.

He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.

Prisons are full of sociopaths and psychopaths, but when questioned, the imprisoned sociopath will honestly admit that they will commit any number of crimes to help a f

We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.

This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.

War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.

Heartbroken men are like wild animals, running around with hysteria in their eyes, desperately trying to knock the dents out of their egos.

Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.

The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency—to make your audience see the familiarity behind the surprise.

Some consumers buy products not because they are ‘better” in any way, but simply because they are popular. What they’re buying is not just a product, but also a piece of popularity itself.

To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.

If you give customers a chance, they’ll communicate with you in many ways.

Realize that employees and the customers both have to be engaged, at the same time, to move your business forward for sustainable success.

Her kiss was a good-bye and a promise and a dream.

But this girl—She reminded me of what it was like to believe in something. Her hope was naïve, but it was real, and I hadn’t felt something real in years. Nothing positive anyways. (Eric)

Luthicer hummed. "You're either brave or very foolish." "What's the difference?" (Eric)

Except heaven is a hope, and eden is a memory .

I view magic as simply the realization of unrecognized potential.

The organism's environment is the sense it makes of the world. This environment is a place of significance and valence, as a result of the global action of the organism.

Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm of the maintenance of the organism's integrity.

It was almost painful to be different.

He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.

The closer he was the less confident I was.

I don’t believe that, " I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. "I never asked you to.” (Jessica)

Sometimes you just gotta hope for the hope of having hope some day.

When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.

His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.

Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.

Having our old Gran in the car was like having a cranky 'Tassie Tiger' sitting in the back. You never knew when she might jump forward and bite you on the back of your neck.

Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born.

Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.

#Writers, #artists, and #poets don't get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T.

Those are the bad guys, right?”“Depends on who wins, I guess.

They walked until the light died in the sky. Until it was dark, and Donald started to hear the whispers. They pleaded out to him in languages he couldn’t understand. Except when they were in Eng

The other dark places, ' Evan whispered. Visions of tunnels of earth and stone, caves and streams entered his head. It was far beneath them. He knew it was real and it was down there, waiting.

It's hard to know what happy is if you're not sure if you've felt it before.

Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective.

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

...and now over to our foriegn allegory correspondant, Barv Tweezman." ~The Shielding of Mortimer Townes

Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees.

In a surreal gift from the universe, time both stands still and flies past you in that singular moment when you find out someone you once loved is gone.