Annie Wauneka Quotes & Sayings

A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him. — Niccolo Machiavelli

You may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you. — J. E. Buckrose

Let us be quite clear that the ideal is a paradox. Most of us, having grown up among the ruins of the chivalrous tradition, were taught in our youth that a bully is always a coward. Our first week at school refuted this lie, along with its corollary that a truly brave man is always gentle. It is a pernicious lie because it misses the real novelty and originality of the medieval demand upon human nature. Worse still, it represents as a natural fact something which is really a human ideal, nowhere fully attained, and nowhere attained at all without arduous discipline. It is refuted by history and Experience. Homer's Achilles knows nothing of the demand that the brave should also be the modest and the merciful. He kills men as they cry for quarter or takes them prisoner to kill them at leisure. — C.S. Lewis

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them. — Peter Wright

You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human is that you get to set your own boundaries for whatever reasons you like, without appending a sensible rationale to them. — Mallory Ortberg

Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word. — Jim Butcher

The dark place with the lousy color TV that unshaven and unemployed men spend the day watching game shows on? Where the piss in the men's room smells two thousand years old and there's always a sodden Camel butt unraveling in the toilet bowl? Where the beer is thirty cents a glass and you cut it with salt and the jukebox is loaded with seventy country oldies? — Stephen King

There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble. — Amanda Eliasch

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones. — Sefi Atta

For the last time, David Bowman slept. — Arthur C. Clarke

Dream the impossible.
See the invisible.
Pursue the intangible.
Achieve the incredible. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide. — Marcus Tullius Cicero