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One Quotes by Rick Yancey
- But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this…
- We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant…
- A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our…
- Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of…
- Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the…
- I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our…
- Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.
- She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it…
- Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are…
- The kid who didn't go back when he should have and now goes back when he shouldn't. The kid called Zombie, who made a promise,…
- The next time you better have a good reason," I tease him. "Okay." He kisses me again. "Reason?" I ask softly. "Um. You're really pretty?"…
- Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of…
- I'm one, too," he said. "What?" He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin." What a shock. "What makes you…
- Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the last one to…
- I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.
- I am the one, Not Running, Not Staying, But FACING
- The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.
- Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.
- If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?
- Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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