Quotes by John Christopher

“Its going to be very wholesome. Its going to be an event that anybody can come to. Therell be something for everybody.”

“Were a chainsaw outfit. We go in and just cut and haul down to the roads.”

“The Lord has really blessed us this year.”

“With the cost of gas, thats going to be a big lick.”

“A lot of us have got medical problems, but it seems like the Lord takes care of those.”

“Stow them in different locations, like a safety-deposit box at a bank.”

“We work with as many companies as possible, so we know how their file format writes data to the drive.”

“Hes been victimized. Everybody identifies with a victim.”

Truth does not surround itself with lies.

Before you have faith you must believe, and before you believe there must be evidence of some sort to persuade the mind. Faith is remembering that evidence and holding to it against all that seems to challenge or contradict it.

He said, speaking more to himself than to me: It was knowledge I sought. Knowledge which is clean and pure, far above the cheating and deceiving in which most men spend their lives.And do you not find it, I asked, this knowledge which you prize?In part, he said. I find other things, too. Things I do not desire but must accept. There is still cheating and deceiving.

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

Some people are oil and water.

I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.

And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.

More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world.

Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.

People may be persuaded that the machine is doing good. In fact, good is only capable of being done on a small scale. Evil is more versatile. You can hate those you have never seen, all the vast multitudes of them, but you can only love those you know — and that with difficulty.

A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.

What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.