Peter F. Hamilton Quotes

I look young, almost as young as you lot; but the real difference between us is cynicism. You don't have any, while I've got a ton of it."
"I'm cynical, Philip protested. "I don't believe a word politicians say."
"That's not cynicism," Sophie said. "That's just common sense.

Mockery; the righteousness of fools everywhere.

I’ve got the worst time of my life ahead of me, and our wonderful medical establishment will stretch it out and out until I just scream for it to end.

We have been extraordinarily successful. As a result, only Europe is in a position to provide this treatment for its citizens. America, with its increasingly isolationist foreign policy and Religious Right cultural dominance, is a long way behind us in this field. Our unquestioned leadership in this field can only be seen as an endorsement of our social inclusiveness. Ours is the culture in which the promotion of human life can flourish to its full potential.

One of the reasons she’d never quite made it to supermodel status was her generous bust size.

Here there was only yourself; a soul buried alive. Nothing to comfort you but your own life. Screaming from the pain of the blows which battered him down might have stopped, but the internal scream of self-loathing could never cease.

But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.

Jeff didn’t blame Dr. Sperber, but he’d been around long enough to know how the information would be used, twisted, sanitized, controlled, released in a way that left Brussels devoid of responsibility. That was the way of all government and politicians; it was never their fault.

It must be a sign of true age to think parties were a pain to be avoided at all costs.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

It was the sort of review board that Jeff thoroughly disapproved of; hands-on bureaucratic interference in university and agency programs always lead to pure science being impoverished.

The whole concept of salvation through belief offers strength to those who doubt themselves.

Want to talk about it?"
"No."
"I think you're supposed to. All my friends who talk native psychobabble say you should rationalize events back to their origin point so you can acknowledge their structural integration within your life flow."
"Alison, that's…that…such a load of crap."
"I know that.

Even Sue was impressed by how quickly he slid from reasonable human being to petulant teenage grouch.

Bankers in pain," Alan said. "Now there's a happy thought.