“This is what it look like when it WORKS?”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“Give it to 'em!"
Take 'em down!"
First Aleran!"
Kick their furry--"
Assault formation!”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They may come. If so, then face them and overcome them. Until then, pay them no mind. You have enough to think on.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“Senator. If you call my friend a liar one more time, I will take it badly."
"Excuse me?" Arnos said, his eyebrows rising up.
"I suggest you find an alternate shortsighted, egomaniacally ridiculous reason to blatantly, recklessly ignore an obvious threat to the Realm simply because you don't wish it to exist. If you cannot restrain yourself from base slander, I will be pleased to meet you in juris macto and personally rip your forked tongue from your head.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“Wars and plans can’t coexist, sir. One of them kills the other.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“Know your enemy. Know yourself. Only then may you achieve victory.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“You can tell a great deal about a person by looking at the people who share his life.” Isana”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“It’s easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“Bosun!” “Aye, skipper?” “Reinforce the mainmast, hang out all the laundry, and warn the witchmen! Let’s make the old bitch fly!”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“I will not live in a realm where calculations of power supersede justice and law - regardless of how inconvenient that may be to the Crown.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die, Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time.”
― Susan Cooper, quote from Silver on the Tree
“It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Anne of Ingleside
“The fatal combination of indulgence without feeling disgusts me. Strange to be both greedy and dead. For myself, I prefer to hold my desires just out of reach of appetite, to keep myself honed and sharp. I want the keen edge of longing. it is so easy to be a brute and yet it has become rather fashionable. Is that the consequence of leaving your body to science? Of assuming that another pill, another drug, another car, another pocket-sized home-movie station, a DNA transfer, or the complete freedom of choice that five hundred TV channels must bring, will make everything all right? Will soothe the nagging pain in the heart that the latest laser scan refuses to diagnose? The doctor's surgery is full of men and women who do not know why they are unhappy. "Take this", says the Doctor, "you'll soon feel better." They do not feel better, because, little by little, they cease to feel at all.”
― Jeanette Winterson, quote from Art and Lies
“the key to human development is building on who you already are”
― Tom Rath, quote from Strengths Finder 2.0
“Thats all we should be, a squishy golem, an extremely articulate automaton, Without one thing- Spirit”
― P.C. Cast, quote from Nyx in the House of Night: Mythology, Folklore and Religion in the PC and Kristin Cast Vampyre Series
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