"And kindness is a weakness. I can see that now. But it's a weakness I'm still not sure I'd want to give up entirely ."
Kallypso Masters
"Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey."
Terry Goodkind
"You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws."
Hilary Mantel
"We came to save the sacred writings. - Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE."
Joseph Shellim
"When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us."
Margery Allingham
"Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated."
Jeff Wheeler
"Sound bytes. Catch phrases. Sales pitches. Words. All lexical legitimizing. ‘A rose by any other name…’ he said. In the end it’s all propaganda."
J.A. Willoughby
"He laughs best who laughs last."
Old English Proverb
"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."
Jane Byrne
"There’s a saying in Hardorn,” she continued. “‘You shouldn’t attempt to teach a goat to sing. It will waste your time, hurt your ears, and annoy the goat.’ I can say without fear of contradiction that the goat is getting annoyed."
Mercedes Lackey
"You should not have to burn your hand every day to feel the mystery of fire."
Steve Abbott
"Cannabis is renowned as a powerful hallucinogen in large doses, and certainly capable of inducing profound ecstatic ecstatic states. Anyone who who doubts this has clearly not experienced its effects."
John Rush
"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."
Sara Sheridan
"Offence is an event, offended is a decision. Offence and offended we have to live through it but to stay offended? To live in that place denies the very nature of the salvation that you claimed to have received."
Patience Johnson
"When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar."
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