Baldur's Gate Xan Quotes & Sayings

Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship. — Chris Hadfield

And that's when you learned, your top fund-raiser was a murder suspect. — Roy Payne

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. — William Ewart Gladstone

She hoped Smoke was wrong about people being unknowable. She hoped that she could crack herself open like a nut and know herself, at least. Then she'd be able to start figuring out everybody else. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don't accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesn't understand you. In both cases, while there is certainly a fool in the picture, it isn't the listener. — Edward Feser

Mine could not be a story about the building of character, but about its erosion, about the slow accumulation of small forces and events that ultimately dries the soul and leaves the heart empty. — Gonzalo Munevar

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"? — Gina Barreca

Deadly Sins on a long, yellow legal tablet: Pride, Greed, Envy, Lechery, Gluttony, Anger, Laziness. — Jim Harrison

You cannot learn from the mistakes of the past if you do not have the truth. You cannot make amends for mistakes if you do not have the truth. You cannot build a future if you do not have the truth. A nation cannot survive if it does not have the courage and the strength to face the truth. — P.B. Wells

I get the feeling," Alec said, and smiled, "she hasn't forgiven me for betraying you, as she sees it."
"Good girl," said Jace with appreciation.
"I didn't betray you, idiot."
"It's the thought that counts. — Cassandra Clare

Because," said the swallow man. "A friend is not someone to whom you give the things you need when the world is at war. A friend is someone to whom you give the things that you need when the world is at peace. — Gavriel Savit

He didn't know why she was there, didn't know why she kept coming back, didn't know, she could have a good man like Haines, why she left Haines's house and ended her night in Cal's bed. And he didn't care. She was there. — Kristen Ashley

Doing something really profound and personal is bigger than a fad.
It's not some passing fancy.
It's always number one. — Chris Rock

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs. — Robert Genn