136 Quotes by A.G. Riddle

This is what you’ve been reading? World War One–era Gone With the Wind?

It strikes me then that it’s our darkest hours and greatest crises that push us to the highest peaks of performance and genius.

For the first time, he saw the world as it truly was, and he saw dangers all around him – in the beasts of the forest and in his fellow man. As a beast, he had lived in a world of bliss, acting on his instincts, thinking only when he had to, never seeing himself for what he was, never worrying about his mortality, never trying to cheat death. But now his thoughts and fears ruled him. He knew evil for the first time. Your.

Survival of the fittest is a scientific fact, but it is a cruel ethic; the way of beasts, not a civilized society. Laws can only take us so far, and they must be based upon something – a shared moral code that rises from something. As that moral foundation recedes, so will society’s values.

Of course, nothing inspires curiosity like a secret.

It was history repeating itself. The same players, playing out a different game, with the same end, on a different stage.

What idea?” “I’ll be back.” “Wake me up in an hour,” David called to her as she left. There was no way she would wake him up in an hour. He needed rest. If Kate was right, he would need to be at the very top of his game.

You overestimate my comfort zone.

There’s nothing left to do. No. It wasn’t entirely true. She was waiting for him. His bed was empty, but the house wasn’t. He could already smell breakfast cooking. He crept down the stairs, careful not to wake his.