"It was the price of survival. The cost……" — Rick Yancey
"It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity."
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139 Quotes by Rick Yancey
Rick Yancey has 139 quotes on this site.
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There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
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But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to…
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To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It…
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A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
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So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our…
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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand…
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To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.
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You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.
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Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't…
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When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
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A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon…
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How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to…
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More Become Human Quotes
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A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has…
— Martin Buber
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It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
— Nicholas Negroponte
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When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you…
— Bayard Rustin
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It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from…
— Arthur Compton
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Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust,…
— Rajneesh
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Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to…
— Andre Comte-Sponville
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The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against…
— Frederick Buechner
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In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less…
— Richard D. Zanuck
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People have become educated, but have not become human.
— Abdul Sattar Edhi
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Children need people in order to become human.... It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and…
— Urie Bronfenbrenner
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Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.
— Randy Alcorn
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Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social…
— Richard Leakey
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