Home > Work > Time's Convert (All Souls)

Time's Convert (All Souls) QUOTES

Time's Convert (All Souls) QUOTES

1 " Der einzige wirksame Zaun gegen die Welt und ihre Gefahren ist das Wissen darüber. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

2 " Miracles should leave a mark, so that we can remember how precious they are. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

3 " God didn't give the General sons of his own. I reckon that's why He gave Washington an army - so that he could be father to us all. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

4 " War is such a waste of women’s time. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

5 " Folks are always in favor of fairness, until they have to give up something they have to someone else. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

6 " A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. —THOMAS PAINE "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

7 " No act of creation has ever been painless,” she continued. “Miracles should leave a mark, so that we can remember how precious they are. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

8 " Too soon? There is no such thing,” Ysabeau said. “We are, all of us, asked to grow up too quickly. It is the way the gods remind us that life, no matter how long, is still but a breath. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

9 " Thomas Paine had come to believe that religion was the worst form of tyranny because it pursued you through death and into eternity—something no king or despot had yet managed to do. At last, Marcus settled on repeating something Thomas himself had written. “ ‘My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

10 " Rules may teach you to be blindly obedient, but they’re no real protection against the world, "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

11 " Saying no takes courage—far more courage than saying yes. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

12 " To be a vampire you must choose life—your life, not someone else’s—over and over again, day after day,” Ysabeau said. “You must choose it over sleep, over peace, over grief, over death. In the end, it is our relentless drive to live that defines us. Without that, we are nothing but a nightmare or a ghost: a shadow of the humans we once were. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

13 " And the only true fence against the world and all its dangers is a thorough knowledge of it,” Matthew said as we rocked in silence, together. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

14 " Um Vampir zu sein, muss man sich für das Leben entscheiden - für das eigene Leben, nicht das eines anderen - und zwar Tag für Tag. Du musst dein Leben über den Schlaf, über den Frieden, über die Trauer und über den Tod stellen. Letztendlich definiert uns unser unausgesetzter Wunsch nach Leben. Ohne ihn sind wir nichts als Albträume, als Gespenster: Schatten der Menschen, die wir einst waren. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

15 " Oh, humanity is marvelously creative when it comes to death and suffering, "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

16 " The declaration made in Philadelphia said all men are created equal—not some men, "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

17 " And it was written by a man who owns hundreds of slaves, "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

18 " The touch we feel as a restraint when we are younger has a way of bringing us comfort later in our lives. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

19 " Even for Philadelphia, it had been a prodigiously warm summer. “Why hasn’t Dr. Franklin invented a way to stop it? "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)

20 " It took me eighteen hours to bring that boy into the world, and no time at all for some idiot with a gun to steal him away.” Mistress Bishop pulled a small bottle out of her pocket. “War is such a waste of women’s time. "

― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)