"Whatâ€™s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?"

-- Joe Abercrombie

#Dream Quotes #Congratulations Quotes #Men Quotes

“A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.”
“I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices”
“I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we were meant for another planet altogether, with other arrangements, and other laws, and other, grimmer skies. I try to imagine it, our true place, off on the far side of the galaxy, whirling and whirling. And the ones who were meant for here, are they out there, baffled and homesick, like us? No, they would have become extinct long ago. How could they survive, these gentle earthlings, in a world that was made to contain us.”
“I'm going to try and focus on doing more theater things. I come from that background. I honestly feel so comfortable being on stage, it's really weird. It's one of those things I love to do.”
“Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.”
“Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.”
“My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.”
“All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.”

Source : Konrad Lorenz (1971). “Studies in animal and human behaviour”

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