"But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?"

-- Joanne Harris

#Mean Quotes #Faults Quotes #Innocence Quotes

“When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 09, 2016
“A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.”
“Beautiful and diabolical. You make me impatient indeed to claim you.”
“A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface of an ocean. What is the difference between the information carried in the words of a novel and the information carried on the waves of the sea? Listen, and the waves will speak, and someday, I tell you, you will write your thoughts on the surface of the sea.”

Source : Douglas Preston (2008). “Blasphemy: A Novel”, p.519, Macmillan
“[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos.”
“The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.”
“Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.”
“We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.”

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