Mohammad Brien > Mohammad's Quotes

“The irony of the young man’s situation is suffocating; a young boy turned violent criminal as the result of bullying, an activity he would now and forever experience from guards and fellow inmates until the day he died.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal High

“Our DNA is coded to harmonise the frequency of the atoms we use to build ourselves. The frequencies of the subatomic particles making up the atoms are changed subtly enough to do this but not enough to change their structure. You could say throughout our development, from birth to death, our genes are composing a harmonic symphony that makes us what we are. It's what makes us individual; it's our life force, our soul.”
― D.S. Smith, Unparalleled

“If he shows aptitude toward the A’ris element, meaning toward the healing arts, then he should contact the Healer’s Collage. Not that they would know much about magic. Anyone can become a healer these days.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

“But, if we consider, as physicists now claim, that everything is energy—everything we see, everything we think, everything we do—then it is just possible that this same law of conservation of energy applies to questions of morality. A conservation of moral energy, a maintenance of equilibrium… a balance exists and must be preserved. If an action is taken that disrupts that balance, then an action similar in kind and degree is required to restore equilibrium.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

“What the hell, Jack? What the hell were you doing back there? Cool the hell off. You’re used to people staring. Get a grip, man. Too early to let things get to you.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

“This world, that world, doesn't matter. You never make people to see what you see, hear, feel what you feel. Notes don't do it, words don't do it, paints, bronze, marble, nothing. All you can do, you maybe get it a little close, a little closer. But right, like you're talking? No.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Unicorn Sonata

“But this too is true: stories can save us.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Oh oh!” said the
mother bird. “My baby
will be here! He will
want to eat.”
― P.D. Eastman, Are You My Mother?

“All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. His instincts prompt him to compete for his place in that community, but his ethics prompt him also to co-operate (perhaps in order that there may be a place to compete for). The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac with Other Essays on Conservation from Round River

“The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Didn’t Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn’t it expert in superstition?”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“Evil is visible, it burns, it smugly displays itself for all to see.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

“As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“The term 'Being' does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulated conceptually according to genus and species: the 'universality' of Being 'transcends' any universality of genus.”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

“Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an artist of some kind. The lovely feeling of my pencil touching paper, a crayon making a star shape in my sketchbook, or my brush dipping into bright and colorful paints — these things affect me as joyfully today as they did all those years ago.”
― Eric Carle

“She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully. "Get out!" He dodges the pillow I throw at him. "Go away! There's nothing left for you here!" I start to shake, furious with him. "She's not coming back! She's never ever coming back here again!" I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. "She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“If we remain positive and accept what is, if we tend to pay attention to the beauty of the practice but not examine the insides, we will be less likely to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt, and we will forgo the potential beauty of our birth culture, and if we forgo the potential of our birth culture, it's harder to see the beauty within ourselves.”
― Janine Myung Ja, Adoption Stories

“A detective in love with a breathtakingly beautiful stripper, who also is a major criminal: “Among her coterie of supplicants was Joe Fucci, a senior detective on the Laughlin force. Joe regarded himself as handsome, and he was. If he went without shaving for three days, a John Deere was required to cut through the growth. No electric razor created by man stood a chance in that tangle of growth.”
― John M. Vermillion, Pack's Posse

“The road to power is forged with lies and lives,” Loch says. “I have no regrets.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

“only a handful of pregnant women are like Emily; that is, they go to the hospital with pain and get the surprise of their life by delivering a child. Using Emily’s least-favorite math term, decimals, the number would be 0.0004 percent of all U.S. births. About fifteen hundred surprise babies a year.”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

“Prayer is an intentional act of fellowship with God, through which we discover His will and exact His authority on the Earth by the demonstration of His power and excellence.”
― Tolulope Oyewole, The Spirit of Prayer: The Believer's Authority on the Earth

“Dependent cultures not only kill the ambition of the people and the organization, they will ultimately drain the energy of the leader and result in the burnout that has killed so many promising careers”
― Andrew Wyatt, Pro Leadership: Establishing Your Credibility, Building Your Following and Leading With Impact

“It is often only when we have the occasion to taste, once again, that which we have lost, that the floodgates open and we are undefendably, confronted with the full experience of the loss."

From The Island of Serenity, Book 1, Survival, new edition”
― Gary Edward Gedall, Survival

“Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?”
― William Gibson, The Miracle Worker

“Kill that Garde as hard as you can!”
― Pittacus Lore, The Rise of Nine

“But that isn’t the only way life is. A part of the time, it’s mighty good. And a man can’t afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad…. You understand?”
― Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

“-Zaledwieś się zjawił na dachu, a już palnąłeś głupstwo. Chcesz wiedzieć, na czym ono polega? Na intonacji twego głosu. To, co powiedziałeś, powiedziałeś w sposób zdający się świadczyć, że nie uznajesz cieni ani zła. Bądź tak uprzejmy i spróbuj przemyśleć następujący problem – na co by się zdało twoje dobro, gdyby nie istniało zło i jak by wyglądała ziemia, gdyby z niej zniknęły cienie? Przecież cienie rzucają przedmioty i ludzie. Oto cień mojej szpady. Ale są również cienie drzew i cienie istot żywych. A może chcesz złupić całą kulę ziemską, usuwając z jej powierzchni wszystkie drzewa i wszystko, co żyje, ponieważ masz taką fantazję, żeby się napawać niezmąconą światłością? Jesteś głupi.
-Nie zamierzam z tobą dyskutować, stary sofisto – odparł Mateusz Lewita.
-Nie możesz ze mną dyskutować, z powodu, o którym już wspomniałem, albowiem jesteś głupi (…).”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“there are those who feel their own strangeness and are terrified by it. They struggle toward normalcy. They suffer to exactly that degree that they are unable to appear normal to others, or to convince themselves that their aberration does not exist. These are true freaks, who appear, almost always, conventional and dull.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“A single decision can collide and cascade until an uncontrollable avalanche sweeps over the world in profound ways. A convergence.”
― Guy Morris, The Image: A Quantum Portal Has Opened