“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
“But I do exist. Remember that . . . This is not Avalon now, t'Larien, and today is not yesterday. It is a dying Festival world, a world without a code, so each of us must cling tightly to whatever codes we bring with us. (Jaan Vikary)”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Dying of the Light
“In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
“The last time the Right Honourable Gentleman raised the accusation about the policies of this government forcing his constituents to resort to inedible foods—in that case, as I remember, it was ants, earwigs, and glowworms—the National Health looked very seriously into the matter, and their inspectors. . . .” “Division! Division!” cried out some who had got the scent of blood, and Mallet Scuffs himself, successfully diverted, cried out, “Weevils, too! Weevils and grubs!” “Their inspectors. . . .” “Weevils, too, weevils and grubs! Weevils, too, weevils and grubs!” chanted a Marxist anti-missile faction.”
― Mark Helprin, quote from Freddy and Fredericka
“Miss Chancellor would have been much happier if the movements she was interested in could have been carried on only by people she liked,and if revolutions, somehow, didn't always have to begin with one's self--with internal convulsions,sacrifices,executions.”
― Henry James, quote from The Bostonians
“I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, quote from The Blood of Others
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