Rat Quotes

“Where's Simon?" Clary interrupted.

Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat," she said darkly.

Did he do something to you?" Alec was full of brotherly concern. "Did he touch you? If he tried anything-"

No, Alec," Isabelle said irritably. "Not like that. He's a rat."

She's drunk," said Jace, beginning to turn away in disgust.

I'm not," Isabelle said indignantly. "Well, maybe a little, but that's not the point. The point is, Simon drank one of those blue drinks- I told him not to, but he didn't listen- and he turned into a rat.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-"
"You invented the Internet?"
It was my idea, Martha said.
Rats are delicious, George said.
"It was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the Internet, not the rats.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“THE UNFORGIVEN


Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people:

The kind who take and don't give.
The kind to whom you give and give,
And they keep asking.
The kind to whom you give and give and they say you gave nothing.
The kind whom have never offered anything,
But act like they're the ones providing
EVERYTHING.

The kind you give and give,
But take more than you can give.
And when they have already taken everything,
They get mad at you when you say you have
Nothing more to give.

The unforgiving,
The misgiving,
Wastefully living -
And selfishly driven.
The rat that never gives back,
Yet is so quick to attack -
Because they think the word
TAKING
Seriously means
GIVING.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I loved you when you were three hundred and two pounds, and I love you now."
-Rat”
― Donna Cooner, Skinny

“I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.”
― Cornelia Funke

“Kad rat pravi zurku, redosled gostiju uvek je isti...
Prvo dodu Popovi...
Pa Topovi...
Pa Lopovi...”
― Đorđe Balašević, Jedan od onih života

“A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Peeps

“I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight. This being that could love a man, bear children, grow old, and die; to think one whole existence was in this weight.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

“The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“You'll always find what you bring with you.”
― Jay Hosking, Three Years with the Rat

“If the solution to a problem creates another problem, then it is better to call it a ‘Circular Problem’! Say, the pied piper of Hamelin has freed the city from the rats, but he has caused serious water pollution by leaving the rats into the river where they have died, rotten and mixed up with the water! Apparently, the problem of the city is solved but water gets polluted and another problem arises. So, it is a ‘Circular Problem’!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“(...) tko će ostati ako se svi odreknemo sebe i pobjegnemo u svoj strah? Kome ostaviti grad? Tko će mi ga čuvati dok mene ne bude, dok se budem tražio po smetlištima ljudskih duša, dok budem onako sam bez sebe glavinjao, ranjav i umoran, u vrućici, dok moje oči budu rasle pred osobnim porazom?
Tko će čuvati moj grad, moje prijatelje, tko će Vukovar iznijeti iz mraka?
Nema leđa jačih od mojih i vaših, i zato, ako vam nije teško, ako je u vama ostalo još mladenačkog šaputanja, pridružite se.”
― Siniša Glavašević, Priče iz Vukovara

“Ali meni je važno i dok god mogu ispričati ovu priču, u nju ću uključiti stvorenja u svom ekosustavu - ptice, leptire, pčele, mrave, komarce i miševe - jer jedno sam naučila: gdje postoje rat i bolna podjela, neće biti pobjednika, ljudskih ili drugih.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“toliko se puta zemlja okrenula
toliko je naših u grobove ušlo
a mi i dalje nismo ljudi nego
neka strašna deca”
― Milena Marković, Deca

“একটি সমস্যার সমাধান যদি আরেকটি সমস্যার সৃষ্টি করে, তখন তাকে ‘ঘূর্ণায়মান সমস্যা’ বলে ডাকাই শ্রেয়! যেমন, হ্যামেলিনের বাঁশিওয়ালা শহরটাকে ইঁদুরমুক্ত করেছে ঠিকই, কিন্তু ইঁদুরগুলোকে নদীতে ফেলে মারাত্মক পানি দূষণ ঘটিয়েছে কারণ সেগুলো পানিতে মরে, পচে একাকার হয়ে গিয়েছে! দৃশ্যত শহরের সমস্যা মিটেছে কিন্তু পানি দূষিত হয়ে আরেকটি সমস্যার সৃষ্টি হয়েছে। তাই এটি একটি ‘ঘূর্ণায়মান সমস্যা’!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Прави разлог рату? Има их дубоких и компликованих. То за нас, Србију, не важи. Ми се боримо збиља за слободу, и да останемо верни себи. То је, изгледа ми, сасвим лако. Много би ми било теже да сам ма која друга нација која се, можда, бори због пијаца и акција. Зато ћу сасвим лако погинути, ако то затреба, не сматрајући да ми је ма ко "подвалио", не бојећи се будућег историчара и његовог суда. Али међу нама има нас који су се дали у дубоке разлоге и образложења. " Економски разлози" увек су ми изгледали ништавни кад ствар дође до пресудна обрта. Тада се ги��е. - А "економија" важи само за - живот. Чим настане област смрти, економија бежи, згранута, не разумевајући ништа.
Економија бежи, ми не бежимо. (Станислав Винавер, Скопски ђачки батаљон 1914: Батаљон 1300 каплара)”
― Nikola Marinković, Daj nam Bože municije

“The way some people seek title is baffling. They are willing to feed their own to the lion to achieve it. Even those who cannot kill a rat want to answer, the Lion Slayer 1 of world people.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“It takes a confident and competent rat to compete in a rat race and win.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Rat koji smo, igrajući se Legije stranaca, bili poveli protiv roditelja, mi smo zapravo dobili, jer ratovi protiv starije generacije uvijek se dobivaju. Međutim, kao i svi, nakon pobjede preuzeli smo ideologiju poraženih, koja je naš trijumf odmah obezvrijedila i učinila ga jalovim i apsurdnim. Tako ćemo ubrzo i mi sami ostati na vjetrometini, izloženi ratnom napadu onih mlađih koji će za nama doći.”
― Goran Tribuson, Legija stranaca

“I am the inadvertent laboratory rat of professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“Nikad neću zaboraviti teški miris baruta na tom prelijepom proljetnom danu i taj kontrast između prelijepog vremena, prirode i proljeća s jedne strane, i ratnog užasa s druge strane. Koliko nam tako lijepih dana duguju!
Elma Tataragic”
― Nihad M. Kresevljakovic, 2. Maj 1992. Bio je lijep i sunčan dan

“2. maja sam naučila da je strah nešto što osjetiš negdje s prednje strane butina, pa se počne kretati naviše, dok ti ne dođe do pluća, pa malo teže dišeš. A i ruke ti se malo tresu i poprime neku ljubičastu boju. Ali svašta možeš kad moraš.
Amira Sadikovic”
― Nihad M. Kresevljakovic, 2. Maj 1992. Bio je lijep i sunčan dan

“Chucky, the once ever-gracious gray Persian cat, had sinned. He had broken the commandment of the house. All who lived within it must abide it. There was only one commandment: the Declaration of Solidarity, and that was this, 'Thou shalt live as if every life is your own.”
― Anthony Trendl, Escape from Hicklebirkle Manor

“Pia, I have lied to you. I told you there were no gods. But there are, oh yes, there are. We are gods, Pia, you and I and Roosevelt. Yes, ha! Roosevelt, the rat god! We have created life! And so we have become gods in our own right.”
― Jessica Khoury, Origin

“My pig has become a rat in his own right.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“My rat has become a pig in his own right.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“If you can’t paint a rat in one stroke, are you even speaking art?”
― Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-