Georges Kariotis > Georges's Quotes

“Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.”
― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

“You never know what you have till you've lost it.”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Do unto others what you want done unto you.”
― Confucius

“In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”
― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
― Amy Tan

“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.”
― Terry Brooks

“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.”
― Rachel Carson

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
― Ayn Rand

“There are bad people in the world: Murderers and psychopaths and telemarketers who won't take no for an answer.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Raised by Wolves

“Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces. Caution has never been your strong suit.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Raised by Wolves

“I was outnumbered, unarmed, weak, and screwed. In that order.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Raised by Wolves

“You're going down, Bronwyn. Them's fighting words.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Raised by Wolves

“Personally, no matter how tempting it might be, I make it a policy not to surgically bestow near invincibility upon the people who would most like to see me dead.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series

“....And b-t-w, if anyone asks you what's in the box, I'd say 'feminine supplies.'"

The box was large and heavy, and there was a distinct clanging sound as I carried it. "As in tampons?"

"Keely's not going to ask questions. Ali's busy with the twins, and everyone else around here is male. Tampons scare the bejeezus out of them, my dad included, but if the person who asks is a Were, they'd smell a lie. Hence, feminine supplies."

"Because we're females, and they're our supplies?" I guessed.

"No. Because weapons are feminine." Lake gave me an insulted look. "Why do you think I named my gun Matilda?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Raised by Wolves

“So," I said climbing to my feet and changing the subject ASAP, "I had a dream last night someone tried to burn me alive, and I'm not entirely sure it was a dream."
Devon stiffened. Chase's pupils pulsed.
Subject successfully changed.
"Now who's ready to eat?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Trial by Fire

“We just hadn't figured on Fighting life.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Tattoo

“I smiled half a smile at her puppy antics, wondering what it would be like to be able to join her, to shed my human skin and the confines that went with it and just live in the moment as a wolf. What would I look like with four legs and fur—would I be light-colored like Katie, or a darker timber, like Dev? I wondered if I would be velvet black with ice-blue eyes, like Chase.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Raised by Wolves

“I laid my head on his neck, and the two of us-girl and wolf-fell asleep, into a dream within a dream.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Raised by Wolves

“I’d take a physical fight over Touchy-Feely Share Time, hands down”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Trial by Fire