Eric Skantze > Eric's Quotes

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
― Donald Trump

“Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.”
― Donald Trump

“Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.”
― L. Ron Hubbard

“When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.”
― L. Ron Hubbard

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.”
― Steig Larson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“It doesn't matter how good the enemy's weapons are. If he can't see you, he can't hit you. Cover, cover, cover. Make sure you're never exposed.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
― Tom Clancy

“Beware the fury of a patient man”
― Tom Clancy

“We are closer to the end of the world than to that minute that has just passed by, because that is lost forever.”
― Håkan Nesser, Mind's Eye

“It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time... That's when you become inhuman.”
― Hakan Nesser, Münsters Fall

“You will find out who you are when the difficult moment comes.”
― Hakan Nesser, Mind's Eye

“Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.”
― Hailey

“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“Music is the one real magic that exists in the world.”
― S.A. Bradley, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy

“Good horror movies scare you, but great horror movies leave you awestruck.”
― S.A. Bradley, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy

“Nothing takes the edge off a stressful day better than watching someone getting decapitated by an ax murderer. When I’m feeling a little depressed, nothing blows away the blues like hearing the screams of an unlucky hunter while mutated bears shred him into mulch. Just the thought of someone unable to get their car engine to start while their undead relative smacks the windshield with a hammer drops my anxiety to a manageable level.”
― S.A. Bradley, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy

“Most fiction is really nonfiction--and most nonfiction is really fiction!”
― Ralph Griffith, 63 Days: The Murder of Martin Luther King and Robert F Kennedy