Army Ranger Quote by Jon Krakauer

“The full stop told the question mark, what an annoying appearance you make. Pat came the reply, not putting me is always a mistake.”

— Nabiha Mayanaz Karim

“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.”

— Thomas Hardy

“He had already figured out a great universal truth, that people never asked for documentation of anything, as long as you asked them for…

— Charlie Jane Anders

“I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal…

— Tracy Chevalier

“He seemed to understand that resolution didn’t need to have anything to do with truth, and to choose a sense of harmony over insight…

— Alissa Nutting

“I spent a long time trying to come to grips with my doubts, when suddenly I realized I had better come to grips with…

— Tom Skinner

“I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even…

— Emil Cioran

“Now, why did he have a hard time believing that?...Because it would be the first time in your life that you ever won an…

— Kinley MacGregor

“He was perpetually on guard against the ways that abstract thinking (especially thinking about your own thinking) can draw you away from something more…

— James Ryerson

“I believed him because the truth is never hard to recognize. Nothing is ever quite so drab and repetitious and forlorn and ludicrous as…

— Budd Schulberg

“Think what you wish, but always ask yourself if you’re basing your principles on real facts,”

— Joseph Befumo