I had no real idea what the people in HR actually did, apart from lose your confidential information, and practically want to know your blood group and who you are currently shagging when you fill in a form, just so they can all discuss you amongst themselves.
Parker Gordon, Parallel Lives [Amazon]
Life is not about you. It’s about what you do for others. The faster you are able to get over yourself, the more you can do for the people who matter most.
Tom Rath, It’s Not About You: A Brief Guide to a Meaningful Life [Amazon]
People may start out with an initial prejudice against tyrants; but when tyrants or would-be tyrants treat them to adrenalin-releasing propaganda about the wickedness of their enemies—particularly of enemies weak enough to be persecuted—they are ready to follow him with enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]
But those people, they were killing America. They were killing the dream. They were all the Constitution this and the Constitution that. But they cherished only the parts they liked. They didn’t feel it extended to us.
C Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust
Magic was just something people liked to believe in, something they thought they could feel or sense, something that made everything more than just mechanical certainty. Something that made them more than flesh and bone.
C Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust
People advocating pure this and pure that. Didn’t they know their history or learn anything from it?
J Damask, Wolf at the Door
I was half conscious and in that place where I usually see the faces of people I don’t know melt into dark eyed skulls and other horrors.
Parker Gordon, Parallel Lives
I didn’t ask to be born into this world. No one does, I suppose, not the bright, shining people nor those who lurk in the shadow.
Bill Kieffer, The Goat: Building the Perfect Victim
All too many people are corks on the sea of life. They don’t live life, they are lived by life.
Christopher S Hyatt, Black Book Volume 1: Principles of Extreme Living
“Some people have no imagination,” Starlight stage-whispers
A C Wise, The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves The World Again
