Home / Quotes / Quote by Warren Murphy

Quote by Warren Murphy

“True love is doing what is good for a person. False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you more.”

Author

Warren Murphy

Warren Murphy was an American author known for his works in spy and adventure novels. His books are characterized by complex plots and richly developed characters, which have won him a dedicated following. more

“Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.”

Mean Moments Action Form Choices Courses Given Wish Dangerous Materials Intention Deeds Meaningless Insignificant Ephemeral

Author:Ann Leckie

“Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they're programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.”

Thinking Mean Able Lasts Night Interesting Week Middle Regret Ought Eggs Chickens Be You Ducks Inadequate Middle Of The Night Translators

Author:Ann Leckie

“Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.”

Possibility Unity Disunity

Author:Ann Leckie

“If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.”

Ifs Should Desperate Hopeless Defiance

Author:Ann Leckie

“Falling didn't bother me. I could fall forever and not be hurt. It's stopping that's the problem.”

Problem Fall Hurt Forever Bother Stopping

Author:Ann Leckie

“Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.”

People Humans Young Human Nature Complaining These Days Illegal Customs

Author:Ann Leckie

“Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.”

Feelings Decision Emotion Easier Endless Handle Compare Insignificant Inconsequential

Author:Ann Leckie

“Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?”

Matter Together Fiction Identity Circumstances Ordinary Narrative Fragments Convenient

Author:Ann Leckie

Quote by Warren Murphy

Author

You May Also Like