"May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift."

-- Veronica Roth

#Voice Quotes #Done Quotes #May Quotes

“Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.”
“It's easier to get divorced than to engage in the soul-stretching personal growth that is inevitable in marriage”
“In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.”
“Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?”
“An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.”

Source : "Obituary". "Nature", Volume 260, April 17, 1965.
“I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.”
“To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the right dose - it sometimes takes quite a lot of work. It seems easy when you hear the joke.”
“When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin.”

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