Balazuc Rue Quotes & Sayings

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces. — Kenneth Grahame

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights ... A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure — Francis Bacon

A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer tolerates the opposition of activity and passivity, nor that of cause and effect, or of indetermination and determination, etc., such that in designating consciousness as an effect or a determination, one continues - for strategic reasons that can be more or less lucidly deliberated and systematically calculated - to operate according to the lexicon of that which one is de-limiting. — Jacques Derrida

He wanted to give her another word to say, something like luscious or whisper or strawberry. Hell, antidisestablishmentarianism would do it. — J.R. Ward

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. — John Muir

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record. — Matthew Sweet

The flat top of the hill was scattered with the bodies of dead men in the uniforms of Sounis and Eddis. The outposts of both armies had met here. As I stood staring, I thought, These are my dead. All of them. The battle hadn't been unanticipated or forced on me, as the raid in the villa had been. I had chosen it. These men, Eddisian and Sounisian alike, had died for my decisions.
When the magus stepped from the bushes toward the back part of the hill, I was more than horrified. I was perilously close to distraught.
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When he pulled away and looked into my face, I knew that he would tell me that I was Sounis and that I needed to pull myself together.
"Your uncle," he said, "in all the years I saw him rule, never had a moment of self-doubt. Never a regret for a single life lost. Do you understand?"
I understood that I didn't want to be my uncle. — Megan Whalen Turner

Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead. — Tom Peters

The headline is good - 'World-Renowned Pair Open Concert Reason. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

One of the worst things you can die with is potential. — Henry Cloud

I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press. Even though I think you're cute. — Chelsea Clinton

A terrified person can never see reality, preferring to hide in their fantasies. — Paulo Coelho

Love does not make cowards. It creates heroes. — Dan Skinner

It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich. — Reinhard Heydrich

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day. — Rick Warren