Denis > Denis's Quotes

“Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.”
― Eça de Queirós

“Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity,”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

“I will be missed after my death, but I will miss nothing.”
― Henry Marsh, And Finally: Matters of Life and Death

“Unable to express his sense of shock and abhorrence openly, let alone to alter the course of events, he had to force his emotional response inwards where it grew into a gnawing and profound sense of shame.”
― Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation Under Arms

“You’re right,” Martin said, before realizing that could easily come across as the opposite of what he meant. (A devious characteristic of language, had Wittgenstein written about that?)”
― Lydia Sandgren, Samlede værker

“We rarely consider the Renaissance in terms of its technological advances but the era’s engineers made much more of a difference to the lives of ordinary people than the great painters or humanist thinkers. Homes were now built with fireplaces and glazed windows; cities with water supplies. New pump designs allowed mines to be sunk, and salt, coal and metal ores to be extracted; new mill designs allowed water and wind power to be harnessed to drain marshes, press olives, or saw planks; new industries – not least, paper manufacture – spread across the continent.”
― Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

“Потом товарищ Сталин умер, прошло ещё 10 лет, и молодые экономисты обнаружили, что старшее поколение о новых вопросах хозяйственного строительства ничего вразумительного сказать не может, так как умеет только цитировать Сталина, а это больше не поощряется.”
― Алексей Сафронов, Большая советская экономика

“Politics matters, she said, because you don’t just implement other people’s decisions: you get to make them. That’s what democracy is about.”
― Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History