Brengen Onalaska Quotes & Sayings

Astraeus,' Aven called out. 'God of the four winds and friend to sailors. Say a little prayer when you look at him, so he will give us what we need to keep our course.'
A little prayer?' said Jack. 'To a constellation?'
To what it represents,' said Aven.
But I don't believe in what it represents,' said Jack.
Prayers aren't for the deity,' said Aven. 'They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.'
Can't you do that without praying to a dead Greek god?'
Sure,' said Aven. 'But how often would anyone do that, if not in prayer? — James A. Owen

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. — Soren Kierkegaard

And YOU are supposed to be serving as guard. Seven vampires live across the hallway. What are you going to do if a couple of them have psychotic breaks and try to escape while you two are having a quickie?"
(Bastien)"Chase them down bare-ass naked and give the human guards and eyeful."
"I don't know about you," one of the new vamps said in his room, "but I'm pretty sure even a total mind-fuck madness wouldn't make me risk that guy chasing me down and tackling me while he's naked and has a hard-on."
Bastien and Seth both laughed.
"What?" Chris asked unable to hear the vamps. — Dianne Duvall

There's no shame in trying to make stuff work, is how I see it. It's better than just accepting the broken. — Sarah Dessen

Do I shock you? We are very playful here. It's a good tone for an operating theatre. It is a theatre, after all. — David Cronenberg

He kissed her lustfully.
Mindlessly.
Senselessly. — Cristiane Serruya

I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.' — Zoe Kravitz

Our nation & our children must come to learn that nothing in life will ever be solved by violence. It will just help breed more! — Timothy Pina

I never go into a race expecting to win, but I do go in expecting to fight. — Chrissie Wellington

In many industries federal regulation is the outgrowth of inadequate self-regulation on the part of the industry. — Judith C. Waller

She had believed that she alone could touch his heart, and that likewise his was the only gaze that would ever reach hers. She had left her home in response to his kind words, only to find that this belief had been nothing but the conceit of an ignorant girl. — Noriko Ogiwara