"The monstrous act by definition demands a monster." — Rick Yancey

"The monstrous act by definition demands a monster."

— Rick Yancey

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139 Quotes by Rick Yancey

Rick Yancey has 139 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to…
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It…
A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our…
What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand…
To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.
You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.
Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't…
When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon…
How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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