Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On se...
STEVEN ERIKSON Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
STEVEN ERIKSON When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see ...
STEVEN ERIKSON Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.
STEVEN ERIKSON The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being wri...
STEVEN ERIKSON Save your explanations, I got some questions for you first and you'd better answer them!' [slurred H...
STEVEN ERIKSON All thrones should be made of ice, I think.

Sit on that numb arse, sinking down and down,...
STEVEN ERIKSON Dying left no details behind, after all. And most certainly, nothing like absolution awaited the fal...
STEVEN ERIKSON For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, buil...
STEVEN ERIKSON How much could be stripped from a people before they began stripping away themselves? The steep slop...
STEVEN ERIKSON An unwillingness. I can carry no one else's burden - not even for a moment. We are all pulled inside...
STEVEN ERIKSON All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. ...
STEVEN ERIKSON Or, rather, you irritate everyone, Curdle. Because you're so unreliable.'
'I'm not always unrel...
STEVEN ERIKSON Tool interrupted, ‘do you mock me, or your own ignorance? Not even the lichen of the tundra is at ...
STEVEN ERIKSON Glass is sand and sand is glass!
The ant dancing blind as blind ants do
on the lip of the ...
STEVEN ERIKSON Diversity is worth celebrating, Humbrall Taur, for it is the birthplace of wisdom.
STEVEN ERIKSON Death and dying makes us into children once again, in truth, one last time, there in our final waili...
STEVEN ERIKSON War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we will...
STEVEN ERIKSON Seems Brood lost his temper.'
'Gods! With whom? Kallor? That bastard deserves-'
'Not Kallo...
STEVEN ERIKSON We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of i...
STEVEN ERIKSON All right, shadow-priest, you've been spying — on what? What state secrets have you learned watchi...
STEVEN ERIKSON He reached out and laid a hand against Quick Ben's brow, then grunted. 'He's on his way back. It's p...
STEVEN ERIKSON Envy shrugged. 'Can no value be found in good intentions?'
'What, precisely, are you trying to ...
STEVEN ERIKSON Victory is an illusion. In all things.
STEVEN ERIKSON A pointless, senseless death.’

‘They’re all pointless and senseless, friend. Until ...
STEVEN ERIKSON Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.
STEVEN ERIKSON You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax an...
STEVEN ERIKSON Where resides the comforting knowledge of history's vast, cyclical sweep, the ebb and flow of wars a...
STEVEN ERIKSON Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And f...
STEVEN ERIKSON Every gift is edged.
STEVEN ERIKSON Very well, permit me, if you will, on this night. To break your hearts once more.
STEVEN ERIKSON Hello, Capustan. The Bridgeburners have arrived.
STEVEN ERIKSON And perhaps that is the final, most devastating truth. The gods care nothing for ascetic impositions...
STEVEN ERIKSON I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good...
STEVEN ERIKSON I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that ...
STEVEN ERIKSON The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.
STEVEN ERIKSON I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should ha...
STEVEN ERIKSON War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, b...
STEVEN ERIKSON We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of i...
STEVEN ERIKSON Kallor shrugged. '[...] I have walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have comma...
STEVEN ERIKSON Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour t...
STEVEN ERIKSON Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing...
STEVEN ERIKSON So you say, with your shiny hair and pouty lips - and those breasts - just wait till you start dropp...
STEVEN ERIKSON With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very q...
STEVEN ERIKSON Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so o...
STEVEN ERIKSON The closest I ever got to Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms was when I bought the box game set for th...
STEVEN ERIKSON One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they ...
STEVEN ERIKSON Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death."
STEVEN ERIKSON The lesson of history is that no one learns.
STEVEN ERIKSON The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.
STEVEN ERIKSON Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You wa...
STEVEN ERIKSON Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering.
Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a...
STEVEN ERIKSON Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?'
The Imass shrugged before replying.
'I thi...
STEVEN ERIKSON Captain! You can't hold them off! I tried! I swear! They've been artificially enhanced, sir! But all...
STEVEN ERIKSON But,’ she continued, ‘the goddess is too strong. Her will too absolute. The poison that is indif...
STEVEN ERIKSON With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lo...
STEVEN ERIKSON long ago, there’d been choices he could have made that would have sent him on a different path. Bu...
STEVEN ERIKSON Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of the human conditio...
STEVEN ERIKSON Words are like coin—it pays to hoard."
"Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.
STEVEN ERIKSON There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new ...
ERIK ERIKSON Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
ERIK ERIKSON The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
ERIK ERIKSON When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we l...
ERIK ERIKSON You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things ...
ERIK ERIKSON In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of ident...
ERIK ERIKSON Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triump...
ERIK ERIKSON Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a chi...
ERIK ERIKSON Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in d...
ERIK ERIKSON Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those pures...
ERIK ERIKSON He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He w...
ERIK ERIKSON This really created a firestorm. This was just a case of power politics with the exile community ver...
DAN ERIKSON The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future gener...
ERIK ERIKSON Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn...
ERIK ERIKSON There is no question that the politics of Latin America have shifted to the left in many countries t...
DAN ERIKSON Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be ...
ERIK ERIKSON Baker has a strong radio presence and has run a surprisingly strong campaign in the countryside. But...
DAN ERIKSON It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up ...
ERIK ERIKSON Given the well-known anti-Americanism of the Cuban and Venezuelan governments, rallies in Havana and...
DAN ERIKSON The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.
ERIK ERIKSON If you expect Haiti to have any kind of democracy in the future, congress has to play a major role.
DAN ERIKSON The UN is going to stay in Haiti for a long time. It should be much more involved in improving healt...
DAN ERIKSON There's no staff. There's very little in the way of physical facilities. This is basically starting ...
DAN ERIKSON We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
ERIK ERIKSON Preval is between a rock and a hard place... He seeks to establish himself as an autonomous politica...
DAN ERIKSON The international community knows how to organize elections. But it's not good at sticking around to...
DAN ERIKSON Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession...
ERIK ERIKSON We love to see companies like Wal-Mart taking a big step and making pronouncements as they have, bec...
JEFF ERIKSON They have huge potential because it's not just Wal-Mart we're talking about, it's their entire suppl...
JEFF ERIKSON A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.
ERIK ERIKSON Doubt is the brother of shame.
ERIK ERIKSON I am what survives of me.
ERIK ERIKSON You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.
ERIK ERIKSON We are what we love.
ERIK ERIKSON The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'
ERIK ERIKSON Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the famil...
ERIK ERIKSON Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
ERIK H. ERIKSON Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
ERIK ERIKSON DR. For when established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, spe...
ERIK ERIKSON DR. Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction ...
ERIK ERIKSON DR. For when established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, spe...
ERIK ERIKSON, DR. Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
ERIK ERIKSON, DR. Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction ...
ERIK ERIKSON, DR. We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negati...
STEVEN BIKO Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I ac...
STEVEN BAUER The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industr...
STEVEN LEVY Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
STEVEN PINKER I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity,...
STEVEN COJOCARU No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel...
STEVEN PINKER Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street,...
STEVEN SEAGAL No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our ow...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by ...
STEVEN SINOFSKY I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push ...
STEVEN PINKER Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get...
STEVEN COJOCARU Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their ...
STEVEN BIKO When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching...
STEVEN WRIGHT Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare...
STEVEN RATTNER So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological pro...
STEVEN PINKER I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
STEVEN WRIGHT Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT 'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is...
STEVEN SODERBERGH I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
STEVEN CHU You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools fo...
STEVEN PINKER Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies o...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded wit...
STEVEN BOCHCO The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and univ...
STEVEN PINKER I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your who...
STEVEN COJOCARU I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been chan...
STEVEN COJOCARU I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things ...
STEVEN TYLER Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you str...
STEVEN WRIGHT Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speec...
STEVEN PINKER The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalis...
STEVEN PINKER A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...
STEVEN WRIGHT If you cannot peacefully coexist with many different cultures and beliefs, then you should probably ...
STEVEN MAGEE Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.
STEVEN MAGEE There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.
STEVEN MAGEE An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud resea...
STEVEN MAGEE Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either dam...
STEVEN MAGEE The USA is corrupt in many areas with law enforcement and utility companies being two of those.
STEVEN MAGEE There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surv...
STEVEN MAGEE The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time wher...
STEVEN MAGEE Many mistakes makes for a very smart person.
STEVEN MAGEE What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the bou...
STEVEN JOHNSON This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
The philosopher replied without an insta...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when ...
STEVEN MAGEE Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that...
STEVEN PINKER A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for ...
STEVEN BIKO We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.
STEVEN SQUYRES The police seem to be learning the hard way that the more abusive they are to people, the less peopl...
STEVEN MAGEE Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have com...
STEVEN BIKO The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn ele...
STEVEN MAGEE Chance favors the connected mind.
STEVEN JOHNSON Very few people realize that the ionizing radiation levels on a commercial jet airplane at cruising ...
STEVEN MAGEE The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossibl...
STEVEN MOFFAT I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
STEVEN WRIGHT I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop,...
STEVEN MAGEE The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy ...
STEVEN JAMES Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
STEVEN WRIGHT An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
STEVEN WEINBERG Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man g...
STEVEN MOFFAT Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the
initiative and thus com...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.
The Doctor: Believe me... I...
STEVEN MOFFAT The most deformed AC voltage sine wave that I have seen in my career was at a high altitude astronom...
STEVEN MAGEE The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical...
STEVEN MAGEE Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death.
STEVEN MAGEE When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repet...
STEVEN KOTLER It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benef...
STEVEN MAGEE I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parti...
STEVEN MAGEE We're all stories, in the end.
STEVEN MOFFAT Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
STEVEN BRUST When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run ...
STEVEN MOFFAT He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been ...
STEVEN MILLHAUSER Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transform...
STEVEN JAMES When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that...
STEVEN HALPERN I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
STEVEN SPIELBERG If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
STEVEN GILBERT With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
STEVEN WEINBERG You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
STEVEN WRIGHT Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
STEVEN SODERBERGH It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to...
STEVEN SEAGAL Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
STEVEN TYLER A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Black holes are where God divided by zero.
STEVEN WRIGHT Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things...
STEVEN WEINBERG One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it h...
STEVEN DEITZ Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, yo...
STEVEN WRIGHT The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.
STEVEN CHU Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should reme...
STEVEN ROGERS I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches.
STEVEN WRIGHT I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.
STEVEN WRIGHT A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any ti...
STEVEN DEITZ People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usua...
STEVEN SPIELBERG My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you l...
STEVEN SPIELBERG So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It'...
STEVEN CHU Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is on...
STEVEN PINKER