"Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words."

-- Steven Erikson

#Children Quotes #Dying Quotes #Three Quotes

“From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.”
“Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the only organisms were single-celled microbes, such as algae, bacteria, and amoebae. The first animal with a head did not appear until October. The first human appears on December 31. We, like all the animals and plants that have ever lived, are recent crashers at the party of life on earth.”
“In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.”
“Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.”
“Eun Gi is lying. It means she doesn't believe me. It means she is angry at me. It means she can't forgive me.”
“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
“Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate, and the most illogical and unfitting extensions of the Bill of Rights as protections for psychotic and criminal elements in our society. We have seen all too clearly that there are mennow in power in this countrywho do not represent authority, who cannot cope with tradition, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support revolution as long as it is done with a cultured voice and a handsome profile.”

Source : "The Impudent Snobs" by John R. Coyne, Jr., (p. 324), 1972.
“God is not regulated to 30 minutes of accessible group singing.”

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