“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn
“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn
“Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn
“Whatever displeasure she felt was openly voiced, and quickly resolved, by either compromise or one partner’s acceptance of the other’s intractability.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn
“Tell them this: somehow our two worlds stand linked again by some dark power of Tsurani origin. It moves against the Kingdom. It is power beyond human understanding, perhaps power to challenge the gods themselves.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn
“what matters isn’t whether or not you’re frightened, but how you behave.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn
“his mind was an enraged animal, bouncing off the bars of a magically imposed cage, and like an animal, he reacted blindly, striking against the barrier again and again, determined either to be free or to die. Hot”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn
“It is the single blackest shame in the memory of our race that one segment of our people utterly destroyed another. ‘But”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn
“No matter how canny you think you are, something can come along, bam, and put you on your prat.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn
“Knowing what things are not is often as important as knowing what they are.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn
Raymond E. Feist
Born place: in Los Angeles, California, The United States
Born date December 23, 1945
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“imagination; it’s their own world, the world of their daily life, and it’s our loss that so many of us grow out of it. Probably this group here tonight is the least grown-out-of-it group that could be gathered together in one place, simply by the nature of our work. We, too, can understand how Alice could walk through the mirror into the country on the other side; how often have our children almost done this themselves? And we all understand princesses, of course. Haven’t we all been badly bruised by peas? And what about the princess who spat forth toads and snakes whenever she opened her mouth to speak, and the other whose lips issued forth pieces of pure gold? We all have had days when everything we’ve said has seemed to turn to toads. The days of gold, alas, don’t come nearly as often. What a child doesn’t realize until he is grown is that in responding to fantasy, fairy tale, and myth he is responding to what Erich Fromm calls the one universal language, the one and only language in the world that cuts across all barriers of time, place, race, and culture. Many Newbery books are from this realm, beginning with Dr. Dolittle; books on Hindu myth, Chinese folklore, the life of Buddha, tales of American Indians, books that lead our children beyond all boundaries and into the one language of all mankind.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from The Wrinkle in Time Quintet - Digest Size Boxed Set
“In speaking of a constitution in cyberspace we are simply asking: What values should be protected there? What values should be built into the space to encourage what forms of life?”
― Lawrence Lessig, quote from Code: Version 2.0
“Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.”
― Anne Ursu, quote from Breadcrumbs
“If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much? ... What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy.”
― Martin Luther, quote from The Bondage of the Will
“Why will people be so stupid as to suppose themselves the only foreigners among a crowd of ten thousand persons?”
― Mark Twain, quote from The Innocents Abroad
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