Gray > Gray's Quotes

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Old Enochian running on neural wetware is not the fastest procedural language ever invented, and it’s semantics make AppleScript look like a thing of elegance and beauty”
― Charles Stross, The Nightmare Stacks

“Every eutopia contains a dystopia, every dystopia contains a eutopia. In”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“If we Americans hate injustice and inequality as passionately as we say we do, would any person in this country lack enough to eat? We demand a rebellious spirit of those who have no chance to learn that rebellion is possible, but we the privileged hold still and see no evil. We”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“And these are your reasons, my lord?"
"Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent."
Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

“the lack of sustenance, the weather, and his age combining to no doubt make the old priest miserable. He was buried deep in his bear cloak and instead of standing was seated on a portable stool, head bowed and hands deep in the folds of his sleeves. She thought he might be napping. Well, no one would blame him.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun

“not to mention threatened air strikes on Caracas and Buenos Aires”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Cronus