Aviendha Wot Quotes & Sayings

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism. — Rebecca MacKinnon

The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree. — Vikas Swarup

I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in. — Aaron Koblin

I can't sleep. I haven't slept in days. I hate this, hate insomnia more than anything, just lying there, brain going round, tick, tick, tick, tick. I itch all over. I want to shave my head. — Paula Hawkins

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival. — Jane Smiley

You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you. — Tom Ford

I shook my head, feeling like a natural disaster on mute. — Penny Reid

But Paul knew that his sin was nailed to the cross, and the hammer of God's mercy has no claw. — Mark Batterson

What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game. — Rachel Sklar

Above all, a horse should never be chastised out of foul mood or anger, but always with complete dispassion. — Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere

He is not a challenge, he is not a conquest. You were once that for him, back when he used to call you a little beast and defeated you handily, time and again. You got the feeling over time and then again that he didn't want to win, when he sparred with you. That was the motivation you needed. The opportunity presented itself; his weakness presented itself. You took it, you beat him, you got better, you stayed neck and neck. Just stay strong, was the first directive. Get stronger, was the next. Don't die, was the final, and that is where you remain. Daunting, to excel at a game that you must eventually lose. Unless you really are an angel. Unless he really is already a ghost. — Vee Hoffman