Eric Schmidt > Eric's Quotes

“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. 'Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Nicci looked up at Kahlan. “Knives are not my talent.” “It’s not hard,” Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci’s hand. “When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don’t like.”
― Terry Goodkind, Confessor

“Human history has a repeating theme: we battle pandemics, we lose, we die, it burns itself out, and we rebuild. We always come out the other side stronger. Humanity marches on.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Disasters are an opportunity for the worst of humanity. And the best.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“The people with this virus deserve love and understanding and care—not discrimination. They don’t mean you harm. They’re just like any of us.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“I figured he’d gotten caught up in the same traffic jam we had, which in Ponchatoula meant that we got stuck behind one tractor while there was another tractor coming in the other lane and the two streams of cars and trucks behind the tractors couldn’t figure out who had the right of way to pass on a blind curve, so we all just kinda poked along for about fifteen minutes until the tractors and all the lines of cars got past one another and we could move on about our lives. The part of that shit I never understand is why the old fart on the tractor don’t just pull off and drive on the shoulder for a minute. I mean, it’s a tractor, fo god’s sake—it’s designed to drive through grass and dirt. Ain’t like riding on the shoulder of the highway is gonna screw up its suspension.”
― Authors and Dragons, Deader Than Hell

“I only buy food from the same place I buy my gas and scratch offs if it’s been deep-fried. Least then I know it was probably hot enough to kill most of whatever’s living in it.”
― Authors and Dragons, Deader Than Hell

“The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.”
― William Shakespeare

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.”
― Douglas Adams

“It is what it is,”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters

“Adventure Society,” Jason said, flashing her a smile. “We’re here to help.”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters

“What about you, Mr Asano? What are you looking for in a woman?” “Evil genius,” Jason said casually. “Evil genius?” she asked, eyebrows raised. “Why not? Smart, confident, assertive, driven. What’s not to like?” “The evil?” Cassandra ventured. “That could be a problem long-term,” Jason acknowledged. “Maybe what I need is a naughty genius.” He thought it over for a moment as an impish grin took over his face. “Yeah,” he said, voice purring. “That sounds exactly right.”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters

“Only using a fifth of your martial arts is like… only using a fifth of your martial arts.”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters

“Are you a child?” Ernest asked. “Mate, we’re about to go flying across the desert in giant magic toboggans. If that doesn’t eke out any childlike wonder, then you might want to check your soul’s still in there.”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters

“figure out how to stay out of my sight, because if I ever see you again, I might just slap you so hard it changes your religion. Do understand what I’ve just told you?”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters

“Life is wasted on the living.’ ”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“You’ll have to earn how to fight,” Sophie said. Despite her best efforts, a smile was creeping onto her face. “I know how to fight,” Belinda said. “Kicking a guy in the beans and then running for it is not fighting.” “It got me this far.”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters 2

“I wake up every morning, proud of who I am,” he told them. “I go out into the world, never regretting that I didn’t at least try and be the person I want to be. I face dangers and make mistakes. Sometimes I get beat, and sometimes I win. I stand up for what I believe in, whatever it costs me. When you give everything, you have to be who you want to be, that’s freedom, whatever your circumstances.”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters 2

“Impossible is just a word for people convincing themselves not to try.”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters 2

“Step one, collect underpants?” he read.”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters 2

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he does not become a monster?”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters 2

“Sandwiches,” Jason said haughtily, “are the garnish on a prime slab of perfectly pan-seared rakish charm.”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters 3

“In all honesty, that was some solid villain monologuing. You should look into getting a weather machine.”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters 3

“a powerful soul with no means to control it was unruly to the point of being dangerous.”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters 3

“if you allow yourself to rise above a short-term perspective and super-charged rhetoric, the big picture is still looking better than ever before.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Veracity

“We always look on the dark side, are suckers for the crisis of the day, and quickly separate into groups.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Veracity

“So the old saying now becomes, ‘the man with a thousand media outlets, each providing its own, differing spin on the news, never knows what’s true.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Veracity

“Whoever thought books didn’t save lives was so very wrong.”
― A.G. Riddle, Lost in Time