Barsavi Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't matter what did or did not happen then. It only matters what happens NOW. — Cheri Huber

Gods, I love this place," Locke said, drumming his fingers against his thighs. "Sometimes I think this whole city was put here simply because the gods must adore crime. Pickpockets rob the common folk, merchants rob anyone they can dupe, Capa Barsavi robs the robbers and the common folk, the lesser nobles rob nearly everyone, and Duke Nicovante occasionally runs off with his army and robs the shit out of Tal Verarr or Jerem, not to mention what he does to his own nobles and his common folk. — Scott Lynch

Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't. — Ann Beattie

Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts. — Khalil Gibran

One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another — John Keats

Every moment is a crossroad in time. Consider that, as above so below and as inside so outside and live accordingly. — Grigoris Deoudis

It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin
every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands ... — Charlton Heston

Barsavi knew how to create expectations, Locke, and how to use those expectations to mislead those who would harm him. — Scott Lynch

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. — Anita Loos

Barsavi realized something that too many men in the city were slow to grasp; an idea that he reinforced years later when he took the Berangias sisters to be his primary enforcers. He was wise enough to understand that the women of Camorr could be underestimated only at great peril to one's health. — Scott Lynch

Women in the 1950s were so much sexier. That's what I aspire to look like. — Kelly Brook

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself. — Anish Kapoor

But often, it is the forbidden that is the hottest, and the depraved that is the most arousing — Alessandra Torre

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself — Marion Zimmer Bradley

But then I think: my guitar is just a thing. You know? And my brother is a person. A thing is not more important than a person... — Kasie West

If your father says 'Bark like a dog,' I say 'What breed, Your Honor? — Scott Lynch

You can't quit or give up before you get it! — Eric Thomas

Guns neither initiated nor enabled larger changes. Economic, political, and social development preceded and laid the foundation for the invention and use of the gun, not the other way around. — Peter A. Lorge

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign. — Vine Deloria Jr.