No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.

The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.

The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round.

Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?

Dead’s not good, but at least it’s simple.

Fayez whistled low. “That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y’know, whatever.

I’m a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.

You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.

You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I’m not driving this bus. Making it do what I want would be like talking someone out of a seizure.

You know, ” Naomi said, “if you’re looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you’re on wrong side.

It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination.

Keep testing your conviction from time to time, with your intellect as well as emotions to ensure you are on the right path!

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.

I dont know how to say this but... I LOVE YOU

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.