“It's those that fight hardest for freedom who are never free.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“Death,' whispered Tarlar, 'you do not fear it, Fell? By water, or any other way?'
'What is to fear?" answered the black wolf. 'If it is an end, then so be it. For there is no pain in that, except the pain left to the living... And if death is not an end, then what more than a wonderful journey...”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“Christians believe that God came amongst us as a man, do they not? Yet the Muselmen say he was only a prophet, and that God has no name...We fight and kill each other so readily, yet if I had been born in the East, would I not believe the stories they believe, and if they had been born here, would they not be Christians?”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“The future?' came the voice sadly...'And do we really pass anything on to the future, except mirrors of ourselves? What if the future is as painful as the past?'
'That we can never know,'answered the wolf angrily. 'That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe the present. Here and now...What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“In that moment Alina Sculcuvant knew that of all life's great journeys, perhaps the greatest was to come home, and to know the place for the first time.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“They came silently as ghosts themselves, swept along like leaves being scattered about them in the scurrying east wind. Yet their running forms seemed carved out by the wild landscape, in the natural facts of evolution, so they were almost perfectly camouflaged, shielded by the deepening colors of autumn change.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables to frighten cowards with the threat of evil and of sin. But the power that lives beyond those stories, and makes them strong indeed, that lives in nightmares and in sleep. That is ribbed into the very fabric of conscious being. The power of love and hate.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
“Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
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“It has a special biological character. Let us take one simple, down-to-earth criterion for that: we are the only species in which the female has orgasms. That is remarkable, but it is so. It is a mark of the fact that in general there is much less difference between men and women (in the biological sense and in sexual behaviour) than there is in other species. That may seem a strange thing to say. But to the gorilla and the chimpanzee, where there are enormous differences between male and female, it would be obvious. In the language of biology, sexual dimorphism is small in the human species. So”
― Jacob Bronowski, quote from The Ascent of Man
“Lauren," he began gravely, "I would like four daughters with wobbly blue eyes and studious horn-rimmed glasses on their little noses. Also, I've become very partial to your honey-colored hair,so if you could manage..." He saw the tears of joyous disbelief filling her eyes, and he jerked her into his arms, crushing her against his heart,jarred by the same emotions that were shaking her. "Darling,please don't cry. Please don't," he whispered thickly, kissing her forehead, her cheek and finally her lips.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Double Standards
“Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began "comparing power with power, measuring, calculating" and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt.”
― David Graeber, quote from Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“It is perhaps a sign of the strength of our republic that so few people feel the need to participate. That must be the reason.”
― Jon Stewart, quote from America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
“Sometimes family hurts you more than they could ever love you.”
― Tijan, Fallen Crest Public”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
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