Top 150 A.G. Riddle Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “There’s nothing left to do. No. It wasn’t entirely true. She was waiting for him. His bed was empty, but the house wasn’t. He could already smell breakfast cooking. He crept down the stairs, careful not to wake his.”

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52. “Disasters are an opportunity for the worst of humanity. And the best.”

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53. “This is War Strategy 101: the aggressor takes a small step across the line, then waits for the result. Does he get appeasement or retribution? Our reaction determines his next move. If he senses weakness, he takes another step, and another.”

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54. “A war that operates in every human mind below the subconscious level, like a computer program, constantly running in the background, guiding us to some eventuality.” Kate.”

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55. “Dreamers die foolish deaths.”

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56. “People will fight to the death to save their own lives, but they’ll wage war to preserve their way of life for future generations.”

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57. “David Vale stepped back into the shadow of the train station’s ticket counter. He studied the man buying a New York Times from the newsstand. The man paid the vendor, then walked past the trash can without throwing the paper away. Not the contact.”

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58. “The sun dims and sometimes it goes out completely. But the sun always rises again.”

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59. “Who wants to try and fail, when you can drink and laugh with no consequences?”

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60. “Any change that takes power from those who have it will face opposition.”

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61. “In our pursuit for the ultimate knowledge, the technologies we created eventually enslaved us, taking the last of our humanity before we even knew it was slipping away.”

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62. “Leave it to a kid to sum up the state of my career so accurately in two words. And leave it to an adult to rationalize it in three: “It’s a living.”

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63. “When she needed to rest, she closed her eyes, refused to let her mind think, and instead focused on her breathing. She first forced herself to draw her breaths into her belly, allowing her abdomen to expand, not her chest. With each exhalation, she focused on the tip of her nose, where the breath touched as it flowed out of her, and counted the breaths. She rarely got past forty.”

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64. “The problem is quite simple. I do not have the manpower to program reports to satisfy their every whim and curiosity – in the outrageous time frames given.”

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65. “Humans should grow up a little hungry, struggle a little, be made to strive for something. That’s what builds character. Struggle reveals who we really are.”

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66. “Trouble in paradise. As far as I can tell, there are only two unhappy inhabitants of First Class, Pop. 10. I call this pocket of unrest the Aisle of Brooding and Snide Remarks.”

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67. “I don’t think a person has to be religious to be moral.”

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68. “We’re not testing it on primates. I want a human cohort of 50 ready to test.” Chang.”

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69. “As a beast, he had lived in a world of bliss, acting on his instincts, thinking only when he had to, never seeing himself for what he was, never worrying about his mortality, never trying to cheat death. But now his thoughts and fears ruled him. He knew evil for the first time.”

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70. “If we let it, guilt has a way of growing.”

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71. “David had spent the last fourteen days, while Kate was away, learning how to operate the ship’s systems. He was still learning them. Kate had enabled the voice command routines to help with any commands David couldn’t figure out.”

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72. “You overestimate my comfort zone.”

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73. “She craves genuine things, real people. We so often seek what we’re deprived of in childhood.”

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74. “For the first time, he saw the world as it truly was, and he saw dangers all around him – in the beasts of the forest and in his fellow man. As a beast, he had lived in a world of bliss, acting on his instincts, thinking only when he had to, never seeing himself for what he was, never worrying about his mortality, never trying to cheat death. But now his thoughts and fears ruled him. He knew evil for the first time. Your.”

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75. “There are only two possibilities: either human life emerged because the laws of the universe support it by random chance; or the alternative: the universe was created to foster human life.”

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76. “Passion, rage – no matter how much we evolve, man can’t escape these instincts: our heritage as beasts. We can only hope to control the beast inside us.”

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77. “For the most part, we live in an uncomfortable equilibrium with bacteria and viruses, both those inside of us and those outside, in the natural world. But every now and then, the war reignites. An old pathogen, long dormant, returns. A new mutation emerges. Those events are the epidemics and pandemics we confront. They are the battles we fight.”

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78. “I think that says a lot about a person: how they handle being second best. Do they work on themselves? Or attack the person ahead of them?”

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79. “An isolated civilization had thrived here, had erected structures to some higher power, but had somehow vanished without a trace, leaving no history, save for the temples where they had worshiped. The.”

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80. “We believed even literary scholars didn’t truly understand Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. They thought it was simply a new type of fantasy novel, an accomplishment in the literary nonsense genre.”

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81. “Most people have a very limited imagination.”

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82. “Think about it logically: we came here on a spaceship that employs concepts in physics your race hasn’t even discovered. You putt around this tiny planet in painted aluminum cans that burn the liquefied remains of ancient reptiles. Do you honestly think you could beat us in a fight?”

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83. “Of course, nothing inspires curiosity like a secret.”

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84. “As David walked down the stone hallway, he wondered whether he was now deeper in the trap or on his way out.”

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85. “Seeing the world that, as a child, he had once thought so unimaginably vast, nearly limitless in size, reduced to a tiny ball, floating there, swallowed by the immensity of the universe, reminded Milo of how small he was, how minute a single life was – just.”

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86. “Karl Selig steadied himself on the ship’s rail and peered through the binoculars at the massive iceberg. Another piece of ice crumbled and fell, revealing more of the long black object. It looked almost like.”

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87. “Stop talking. You’re making everyone who can hear you dumber.”

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88. “A landing from space has been described as a train wreck, followed by a car accident, followed by falling off your bike.”

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89. “The war is always the same, only the names and places change.”

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90. “When the plague went global, everyone wanted someone to blame. You were the first story and for many reasons, the best story.”

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91. “The chief bent down and looked the woman over. She was skinny, but not too skinny. He liked that. He felt for a pulse, then turned her head side to side to see if she had any head trauma.”

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92. “Kate wondered what part of the male brain prioritized movie scene storage above all other details in life. Maybe the answer was in the Atlantean research database somewhere. It was all she could do not to launch a query for the answer.”

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93. “They had truly sacrificed for each other, laid it all on the line when the stakes were highest. That was the definition of love. At.”

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94. “Control your mind, or it will control you, and you will never break through the walls it builds.” Milo.”

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95. “This is what you’ve been reading? World War One–era Gone With the Wind?”

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96. “Another truth: parents desire for their children the things they never had.”

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97. “Human history has a repeating theme: we battle pandemics, we lose, we die, it burns itself out, and we rebuild. We always come out the other side stronger. Humanity marches on.”

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98. “It will decrease the yield.”

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99. “Sonja!” David called around the hall. “Switch with me.”

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100. “The conspiracy theorists claimed that a Nazi sub left Germany just before the fall of the Third Reich, carrying away the highest ranking Nazis and the entire treasury, including priceless artifacts that had been looted and top-secret technology.”

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