Sofia Fegan > Sofia's Quotes

“this group of young, nimble engineers who crossed disciplines out of necessity and the spirit of adventure.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

“Ankh, udja, seneb!”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“I have observed that religion is not restraining in a moral see. Religion is not the same as ethics. Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.”
― Harold Schechter, Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

“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 friend.

A friend will help you move; a true friend will help you move a body.

A friend will bail you out of jail; a true friend will be sitting beside you.

Who wouldn’t want to have a true friend? But they sound a lot like a sociopath.”
― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade

“owe my entire career in leadership to Helen Fahey’s confidence, not just in me, but in herself. She glowed in the achievements of her people—who loved her back—and we blossomed in her glow. She had the confidence to be humble.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

“Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grows without the thorn”
― Martin Amis

“I have never seen any indication that Powell discussed on his AOL account information that was classified at the time, but there were numerous examples of Secretary Clinton having done so.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

“faithful, resolute, alive, You and the Two Lands that has no enemies; This life is no more than a dream, so seize the day before it passes!”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“play The Tempest,”
― Harold Schechter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal

“There had been over four thousand Jewish children penned in the Vel’ d’Hiv’, aged between two and twelve. Most of the children were French, born in France. None of them came back from Auschwitz.”
― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key

“Any man who doesn't believe in carrying weapons on a first date is not a man worth knowing.”
― Seanan McGuire, Midnight Blue-Light Special

“Let your gentleness be evident to all, daughter … I am with you always.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Bailey Flanigan Collection: Leaving / Learning / Longing / Loving

“Mom, please don't use 'the happy voice.' It reminds me of the day Tinkles died."
"Who was Tinkles?" Sue asked around a mouthful of pancake.
"My cat. When I was five, Tinkles died choking on a mouse that was a bit ambitious for a kitten to eat."
"It was terribly traumatic for Aurelia because it was the first time she'd experienced loss." 
"What did you do to help her get through it?" 
Rosalind smiled at Mother Guardian. "Well, after a good cry, we performed an autopsy."
Aurelia reached for her mother's hand. "I never thanked you for that.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“On the end of my bed. He’s short, round and bald, with a tartan loin cloth, and what looks like a spout on the top of his head,’ Bryony said. ‘You flatter me,’ came the snide male voice. ‘But it’s a valve.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?”
― Thomas Hardy

“You might realize that it's safe for other people to have problems, that they are on their path to finding out who they are.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living

“I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years. Byron, that revolutionary student, had to compensate for a club foot; Demosthenes for a stutter; and Homer was blind. Socrates couldn't manage his wife, and infuriated his countrymen. And what about Jesus, if we need an ultimate example of failure with one's peers? Or an ultimate example of love?”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he'd never been.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“But a person can be genocided-can have every connection to his past severed- and live to be an old man whose rib cage is a haunted house built around his heart.”
― Sherman Alexie, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“Heil Hitler," he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, "Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas