Lost Quotes

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

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

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.

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

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

Only those who never step, never stumble.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but you smell like Magnus.

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.

It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

Leo. Jason said, you're wierd. Yeah, you tell me that a lot. Leo grinned. But if you don't remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes. Come on!

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

Negativity is never an option

Sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing down and allowing the universe to do its work.

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

If you love someone, why would you want that person to change?

Leo: I'm almost out of gas! Woah, that came out wrong. I meant the burning kind!

There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —

What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?

We’re all just ingredients. What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal.

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.

Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.

You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.

A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.

we are not leaving anyone behind we have to stick togheter in order to stay safe.

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.