He’s afraid, " Graber said." Yes, naturally. But he’s a good dog."" And a man-eater."" We’re all that."" Why?"" We are. And we think, just like that dog, that we are still good. And just like him we are looking for a bit of warmth and light and friendship. Erich Maria Remarque
We could do it, you know."" What?"" Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.
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Suzanne Collins
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to...
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Tana French
Loving someone always requires you to not love others.
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Koushun Takami
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.
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Laura Hillenbrand
More Quotes By Erich Maria Remarque
A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of...
Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!
Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers...
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.
The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
