He had spoken with such absolute confidence that I knew he had to be blowing this out of his rectal orifice.
– Neal Stephenson
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- Science isn’t just about blowing things up. Rather it’s about blowing things up and knowing how you did it. – William Gurstelle
- In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. – Francis A Schaeffer
- Gold is the corpse of value… – Neal Stephenson
- If money is a science, then it is a dark science…it has gone on developing…by its own rules – Neal Stephenson
- Debbie insisted on following the rhythm of the waves. Typical duck-squeezer sex: slow, frustrating, in-tune with nature. – Neal Stephenson
- That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking, what’s your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to? – Neal Stephenson
- I just saved your ????ing life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo. – Neal Stephenson
- It’s–my God–like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it. – Neal Stephenson
- See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places, – Neal Stephenson
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- Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you. – Neal Stephenson
- When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people. – Mahrukh
- We cannot properly defend and protect ourselves without confidence. Confidence is vital, we must learn that confidence in life matters a lot. – AuliqIce
- I can’t say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough. – Jan Karon
- True self-confidence never needs to degrade the confidence of others in order to grow. If it does, it’s not confidence at all-¦it’s ego. – Charles F Glassman
- My God had not spoken to me again. But neither had He forsaken me. I knew that. For damned sure, I knew that. – Marcus Luttrell
- Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word. – ND Wilson
- In the textbook of revelation, the Bible, God has spoken verbally; and this spoken word has survived every scratch of the human pen. – Billy Graham
- She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living. – Chris Cleave
- Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute. – Idries Shah
- Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. – Frank Herbert
- Soul (Atma), Absolute Knowledge (Gnan) and the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma) are one and the same element. – Dada Bhagwan
- Man (human life form) is a ‘second-hand’ quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self]. – Dada Bhagwan
- Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Absolute is infinite so there is no absolute truth. There is truth that you can see in infinite ways and make your own. – Debasish Mridha
- If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? – Harry Shearer
- Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Death an absolute mystery. No one knows the day and the time, no one knows where and how. Death is an absolute mystery. – Euginia Herlihy
- Are we looking for the absolute truth or the absolute feeling? Or the answer that best suits our personal needs? – Noah Cicero
- Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. – Leo Tolstoy
- If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child. – John SC Abbott
- I remember my own childhood vividly…I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them – Maurice Sendak
- He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him. – Philip Zaleski
- And He knew him, imagine, To be known, spoken of, By the creator of everything That rule from above. – Brian M Boyce
- I wondered how he’d learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken. – Amy Harmon
- The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. – George Stephenson
- A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. – George RR Martin
- The wind of God is always blowing… but you must hoist your sail. – Franois Fnelon