"There's an old saying about truth setting you……" — Rick Yancey
"There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts."
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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 Bolts Quotes
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one of 76 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
— Adam Carolla
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the…
— Unknown Author
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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
— Minna Antrim
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated…
— Karl Kraus
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They say dreams are the windows of the soul-take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts…
— Henry Bromell
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
— James Russell Lowell
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We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient…
— Paul Provenza
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It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the…
— Herodotus
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Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.
— Jody Watley
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That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered…
— Christopher McDougall
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