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“I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.”
Source : "The Emperor and the Maula". Short story by Robert Silverberg, 2007.
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“I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.”
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“I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.”
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“Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.”
Source : Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
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“In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.”
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“There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”
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“I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.”
Source : Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.
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“What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.”