Augnet Quotes & Sayings

All money is imaginary," answered the Calcatrix simply. "Money is magic everyone agrees to pretend is not magic. Observe! You treat it like magic, wield it like magic, fear it like magic! Why should a body with more small circles of copper or silver or gold than anyone else have an easy life full of treats every day and sleeping in and other people bowing down? The little circles can't get up and fight a battle or make a supper so splendid you get full just by looking at it or build a house of a thousand gables. They can do those things because everyone agrees to give them power. If everyone agreed to stop giving power to pretty metals and started giving it to thumbnails or mushroom caps or roof shingles or first kisses or tears or hours or puffin feathers, those little circles would just lay there tarnishing in the rain and not making anyone bow their noses down to the ground or stick them up in the air. — Catherynne M Valente

When the day comes in which the Kingdom of God will bear rule, the flag of the United States will proudly flutter unsullied on the flag staff of liberty and equal rights, without a spot to sully its fair surface; the glorious flag our fathers have bequeathed to us will then be unfurled to the breeze by those who have power to hoist it aloft and defend its sanctity. — Brigham Young

What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation. — Ernst Mach

The worst thing in the world is to have regrets. You will always have a few, but they shouldn't be ones that keep you up at night. — Viola Shipman

So that's it."
"Pretty much." He closed his eyes. "Unless you let me kill him. — Thea Harrison

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door. — Nora Roberts

I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff. — Sonequa Martin-Green

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose? — Tom Butler-Bowdon

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations. — Bryant H. McGill