Jake > Jake's Quotes

“The things that others have always seem better than what you have,” his mother said.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“When men perceive the world as being right, we are content. But if we see a hole—a deficiency—we scramble to fill it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Videogames weren’t just for kids; they were for anyone who wanted to feel like a kid.”
― Blake J. Harris, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

“Videogames were for everyone; they just didn’t realize it yet.”
― Blake J. Harris, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

“This task was given to Shigeru Miyamoto, a floppy-haired first-time game designer who idealistically believed that videogames should be treated with the same respect given to books, movies, and television shows.”
― Blake J. Harris, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

“the console was just the movie theater, but it was the movies that kept people coming back for more.”
― Blake J. Harris, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

“An individual can donate money to help support a cause, but an ambitious company can actually cause a shift in the global conversation.”
― Blake J. Harris, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

“represents the only thing that a player cares about when he’s locked into a game. Shut off the real world, dive into the game world, and just keep going-going-going at all costs until you get there.”
― Blake J. Harris, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

“Fie these gods! What beings are these who would play so cruelly with the sensibilities of rational, conscientious mortals?”
― R.A. Salvatore, Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf

“Because when we reach, when we seek that place we have only seen in our imagination, we threaten the order of things, and threaten most especially the place of those who have found a better roost.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf

“If we can choose, we can change. If we can't change, then choice means nothing. I'm glad I feel this way, to remind me that I haven't always felt the same. Been the same.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“You don't have to smile. You don't have to talk. But if you're going to be miserable, you might as well do it with friends.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“The question is meaningless.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

“There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The real difference between us and chimpanzees is the mythical glue that binds together large numbers of individuals, families and groups. This glue has made us the masters of creation.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

“Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I have the right to tell you this because, as I am inscribing these words, I am doing the same.”
― Ted Chiang, Exhalation

“People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments.”
― Ted Chiang, The Best of Subterranean

“My dour companion snorted. “A few millennia worth, from a few pockets of humanity, nothing more. And that picked and sorted, trimmed and twisted to suit the tastes of those in power.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Inheritance Trilogy

“It is hard to take in the idea that an electron behaves in such a bizarre way. It is even more difficult to digest that this is also the way time and space behave.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

“But it isn’t absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

“We see the sky turning around us every day, but we are the ones who are turning.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

“a meaning determined by where, how, when, and by whom”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

“We are for ourselves in large measure what we see and have seen of ourselves reflected back to us by our friends, our loves, and our enemies.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

“our consciousness is based on memory and on anticipation.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

“Everything vanishes, like mist and dreams . . . Time is a strange thing.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

“Every day countless people die, and yet those who remain live as if they were immortals.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

“sometimes their motives were as pure as the driven snow. But the changes were made nonetheless,”
― Bart D. Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

“Only in the present tense am I real.”
― Claire North, The Sudden Appearance of Hope