House Quotes

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again- storm or fire- remember me. And do not despair.

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.

...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.

Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.

Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.

You will never exploit your full technical capacity if your fitness remains a weak link.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

Twelve minutes. I can give you that.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.

Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?