The Cure Quotes

“We’re all guilty of being absolutely sure of things we have no business being sure of. But I think most of us also cling to these cherished beliefs with superhuman tenacity. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence that we’re wrong.”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“Life is so complicated. So many decisions. But when you’re fighting for your life things become very straightforward. Priorities become very clear. And the excitement and adrenaline are there too.”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“She remembered reading a quote from a famous scientist, who was speculating about intelligent life in the universe, that was particularly apt to this situation: Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“She didn’t think of herself as overly choosy, but she did insist that the body parts of her sexual partners be a hundred percent human.”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“He had read a description of the life of a novelist, and decided his life wasn’t too far different. Writing is easy, Gene Fowler had famously observed. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“We have here an unusual opportunity to appraise the human mind, or to examine, in Earth terms, the roles of good and evil in a man. His negative side, which you call hostility, lust, violence. And his positive side, which Earth people express as compassion, love, tenderness. —Star Trek, “The Enemy Within” (Spock) Suppose some mathematical creature from the moon were to reckon up the human body; he would at once see that the essential thing about it was that it was duplicate. A man is two men, he on the right exactly resembling him on the left. Having noted that there was an arm on the right and one on the left, a leg on the right and one on the left, he might go further and still find on each side the same number of fingers, the same number of toes, twin eyes, twin ears, twin nostrils, and even twin lobes of the brain. At last he would take it as a law; and then, where he found a heart on one side, would deduce that there was another heart on the other. And just then, where he most felt he was right, he would be wrong. —Gilbert Keith Chesterton”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“I’m just struck by how absolutely certain we can be about things for which there is no objective certainty. How stubborn. And how often we can fool ourselves.”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“cling to these cherished beliefs with superhuman tenacity. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence that we’re wrong.”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“most deeply held beliefs of early adulthood have changed over the years, through repeated exposure to new and different experiences, and to new ways of thought.”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“creates endless permutations and combinations”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“How many dictators and tyrants throughout history had been psychopathic? Erin suspected almost all of them.”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“Evolution can work through competition, but it can work through cooperation also. Take a beehive.”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“wearing metal in his mouth”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“So maybe he had known she was coming.”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“this guy”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure

“Good people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing. Then,”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Cure