“Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.”
― David Eddings, quote from Polgara the Sorceress
“Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.”
― David Eddings, quote from Polgara the Sorceress
“Priests are pretty much the same the world over. They seem to feel that their exclusive contact with God gives them a certain job security.”
― David Eddings, quote from Polgara the Sorceress
“Now there’s something for you to think about. If you don’t know that you can’t do something, isn’t there a remote possibility that you’ll go ahead and do it anyway in absolute defiance of physical law? That might be one of the drawbacks of education. If you don’t know that you can’t pick yourself up by the scruff of the neck and hold yourself at arm’s length, maybe you can.”
― David Eddings, quote from Polgara the Sorceress
“When father uses the word 'politics' he's talking
about relations between nations. When I use the word, though, I'm
talking about the various subtle ways a woman can get men to do
what she wants them to do.”
― David Eddings, quote from Polgara the Sorceress
“We can try to act civilized and polite, but at the bottom of it all, the power of any ruler is based on a threat. Fortunately, we don’t have to carry that threat out too often.”
― David Eddings, quote from Polgara the Sorceress
David Eddings
Born place: in Spokane, Washington, The United States
Born date July 7, 1931
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“As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Empire
“The world’s societies suffer from the current cult of victimization because its subtle dogma holds that circumstances and other people prevent you from achieving your goals.”
― quote from The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
“The daylight changes the aspect of misery to us, as of everything else. In the night it presses on our imagination—the forms it takes are false, fitful, exaggerated; in broad day it sickens our sense with the dreary persistence of definite measurable reality. The man who looks with ghastly horror on all his property aflame in the dead of night, has not half the sense of destitution he will have in the morning, when he walks over the ruins lying blackened in the pitiless sunshine.”
― George Eliot, quote from Scenes of Clerical Life
“The house had an aura of acute emptiness—a home simply waiting for time to go by. Janet”
― Kendra Elliot, quote from Hidden
“And when people die, it’s so wonderful that they never come back to tell you.”
― Byron Katie, quote from Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
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