“Greatest felicity of any human or animals is to feed own belly”
“One second after an EMP attack, it will be too late to ask two simple questions: what should we have done to prevent the attack and why didn't we do it?”
Source: One Second After
“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.”
Source: House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City
“And here am I, she thought, fixed in the religious life like a candle on a spike. I consume, I burn away, always lighting the same corner, always beleaguered by the same shadows; and in the end I shall burn out and another candle will be fixed in my stead.”
Source: The Corner That Held Them
“By Gad,' exclaimed Welsh, 'I’d manage a nunnery for £500!'
'I daresay you would, but a suicidal, and possibly homicidal, lunatic isn’t a nunnery.'
Welsh looked at his friend with diminished respect.”
Source: The Lunatic at Large
“She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“A woman who knows how to be on her knees, can overcome any battle with ease.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A prayerful woman knows how to go on her knees, because she knows that on her knees, she always wins.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“When thrown in the pit, a prayerful woman always finds a way out, because God comes to her rescue.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A prayerful woman may go through a lot, yet she is able to get things together. Because she overcomes by prayer.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman