"Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder."

--

Source : Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.227, Macmillan

Peter Watts

#Damage Quotes #Murder Quotes #Easier Quotes

“It's stressful to keep doing audition after audition after audition. You finish one and go to the next one, and you have to learn lines. For me, I have to work on my accent, so I was getting accent coaching and acting coaching. I wanted to make good impressions.”
“Not one of the first six [U.S.] presidents was an orthodox Christian. Most of the founders were Deists, who "doubted that Christ was a god" and equated God with "the power behind nature, as discerned by science."”
“It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact that several Iraqi army divisions have melted away.”

Source : "Obama contemplates military action as US tensions rise over Iraq crisis" by Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2014.
“In my dreams you are standing right beside me, two hearts finally colliding, then i wake up and realise, realise, this is real life”
“I donâ€™t believe in â€œlaying to restâ€ the past. There are wounds we wonâ€™t get over. There are things that happen to us that, no matter how hard we try to forget, no matter with what fortitude we face them, what mix of religion and therapy we swallow, what finished and durable forms of art we turn them into, are going to go on happening inside of us for as long as our brains are alive.”
“In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.”

Source : "'Art of Learning' isn't just black and white". Interview with Tracey Wong Briggs, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 17, 2007.
“If life is a game, then the people who play in center with their own style only make the real name; but for others the aim is just the same for they do anything from comment, copy, criticize, cover or cheer by being anywhere.”
“Most Iranians are sick and tired of revolutions. They've had one for the last 25 years, and they don't want another one. Those who've tried to spark another revolution have failed time and again. I don't think there's any evidence that somehow, if the U.S. gave these guys the high sign, it would make regime change somehow more likely. Every time the U.S. has tried to interfere in Iranian affairs to help a particular group of Iranians, it's backfired on us, and hurt the group we tried to help.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

You may also like: