„Waldo Butters: Screw up my life?[He stared a me for a second and then said, deadpan]Waldo Butters: I’m a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow.[He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said]Waldo Butters: Do your worst.“

— Jim Butcher

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„The husband's behavior was heroic … but what we expect of a husband toward his wife: his right, and his proud privilege, to die for his woman. But what of this nameless stranger? Up to the very last second he could have jumped clear. He did not. He was still trying to save this woman he had never seen before in his life, right up to the very instant the train killed him. And that's all we'll ever know about him.This is how a man dies.This is how a man … lives!“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„No,’ Nico said. ‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.’ As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could’ve been talking about himself. He decided not to bring that up.“
— Rick Riordan
„When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.“
— Robert A. Heinlein