Books Quote by James S.A. Corey Download Open image ““I actually read history. It’s like reading prophecy, you know.”” — James S.A. Corey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books History
“I’m as surprised as you are,” Avasarala said. “Though I feel like I shouldn’t be. I actually read history. It’s like reading prophecy, you… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.” — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“history’s just old news, prophecy that’s well past its sell-by date.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Prophecy is history unfulfilled, and history is prophecy fulfilled.” — Dwight Lyman Moody Copy Share Image
“I entreat my readers, besides the Bible and the Articles, to read history.” — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“The fact they could check becomes the prophecy they must believe.” — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
“Like entering what you think is going to be history and finding endless sad fragility.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.” — Nicole Luiken Copy Share Image
“If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.” He” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“This was the difference, she thought, between solitude and isolation. And now she knew something about herself she hadn’t known before. It was an… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“Oh, I’m not dying out here,” Amos said, and pointed toward the interior of the ship with his chin. “Worst-case scenario, I’m dying inside… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“My love is a pure love,” Alex said with a grin. “I wouldn’t sully it by actually, you know, doin’ anything about it.” “The” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“The mech hadn’t been designed for violence, but it was suited for it. That made her and it the same.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“For another thing, we’re under martial law, so I can do very nearly whatever the fuck I want. Including march through your precious little… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“This attack is the greatest tragedy in human history,” Avasarala said. “They want the belt to rise up so they can hide behind the… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“Church of Humanity Ascendant, a religion that eschewed supernaturalism in all forms, and whose theology boiled down to Humans can be better than they… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“Oh good,” Amos replied. “Somebody got killed there. That’s how we claim stuff, you know. This planet is officially ours now.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“Alamogordo and worked his two-year service stripping down ancient solar electricity stations from the bad old days before fusion.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“But humans hadn’t been living and working in space nearly long enough for the primitive part of the brain not to say, I’ll fall,… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image