Arcus Quotes & Sayings

You don't know the effect your words have on me, Lady Firebrand. It took years to build up this ice. You will melt it and then I will be broken. — Elly Blake

If we all had names to suit us, you'd be called Thorn in My Backside. Or Plague of the Gods."I prickled at his scathing tone. "And you'd be Miserable Blockhead.""Is that the best you can do?""Give me time. I'm half frozen." "Perhaps your name should be Icy Tyrant. No, wait. Frigid Despot. — Elly Blake

Get rid of the idea that to own money or to be associated with it is "dirty" or "greedy" or "non-spiritual. — Christopher Dines

How handsome he must have been before he was burned. Heat flared over my skin. How handsome he was now. — Elly Blake

Don't pressure yourself to target a market. Hit the mark instead. Pay homage to your own connection. Quantity flocks to quality and quality comes from purity. Purity wails. Integrity taps a nerve. Inspiration slips beneath the skin of yoru skin and turns disinterested strangers into warm-bodied kin. — Tama J. Kieves

The ones you love must be the ones you trust, dont give it at a cheap bargain — Priyansh Shah

Did Brother Thistle train you in the most effective methods of communicating with me?"
His head lifted and his lips curved. "He may have given me some advice."
"And you took it?" My brows rose.
"I'm experimenting with it. If it doesn't work, I'll go back to my tried and true method."
"By which you mean threats and orders."
His smile widened. — Elly Blake

In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show. — Maxim Knight

I know by heart the places he likes to saale, delvan first and duvlin after, by dredgerous lands and devious delts — James Joyce

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how. — Georg Henrik Von Wright

Knowing a thing and experiencing it are always very much different things. — Tressa Green

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality. — Robert Greene

My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish. — Shane Filan

I said I didn't believe in the prophecies. I don't believe they all come true. I believe we always have choices. Even Sage can't tell us what is going to happen. Only what might happen. And sometimes prophecies are just wrong. — Elly Blake

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground. — Emile Zola

You speak as if I'm as heavy as an ox," I said. "Last week I was a bundle of sticks.""You're still too thin.""Perhaps if I gain some weight, you won't call me a stick anymore.""You may hope to one day be a branch."I glanced at him sharply, unable to repress a little flutter of delight that he was bothering to joke with me."A log, even," I suggested."Doubtful," he said wryly. — Elly Blake

I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time. — Jose Manuel Barroso

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard. — Toni Collette

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again. — Mark Rothko

What a marvelous sunset,' she said. 'Yes,' replied her husband. 'Most impressive for such a small village. — Peter Mayle