Abhorsen Cover Quotes & Sayings

It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection. — Samuel Freeman Miller

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. — Lyndon B. Johnson

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all. — Albert Einstein

Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy. — Criss Jami

Humor is the ovum of dissent, — David Mitchell

Achilles acted as if he had already won, and because the other kids followed him, he had. — Orson Scott Card

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it. — Carine Roitfeld

Even in their final hours, my parents had hope. Once, they had put their hope in Wakanda. Now, they put their hope in Killmonger who would make Niganda great. Greater than even Wakanda. He promised them power and a country greater than any country in Africa. They were blinded by their desperate faith. Blinded by their hope. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

If you invest in your critics more than you invest in your dreams, you have successfully invested in your failure. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The mind is not sex-typed. — Margaret Mead

You have to first believe in what you are, in what you can do, in what you say before you can make anybody believe in you. — Rita Zahara