Calimport Thieves Quotes & Sayings

If God omnipotently says, "Thou shalt," man shall not say, "I will not. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

For my father, being kind was natural ... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness. — David Copperfield

No beautiful aspect of humankind is foreign to person with a lucid soul. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher. — R.S. Thomas

And, unknown to herself, he had done a portrait in words. — Cecil Roberts

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done. — Zebulon Pike

Sometimes the people we love make us hate some other people we love. — Munia Khan

Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents couldn't appreciate her music-it wouldn't appear to be hard work to them. Menolly shook her hands, letting them flap from her wrists. They ached and trembled from the constricted movements and tension of an hour of intensive playing. No, her parents would never understand that playing musical instruments could be as hard work as sailing or fishing. — Anne McCaffrey

I don't like repeating gossip, so listen up. — Jane Seabrook

Only when I fall do I get up again. — Vincent Van Gogh

A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself," Entreri explained curtly, "if he can impart the belief that some god or other speaks through him. It is the greatest deception in all the world and one embraced by kings and lords, while the minor lying thieves on the streets or Calimport and other cities lose their tongues for so attempting to coax the purses of others. — R.A. Salvatore

I'd always follow Nixon's orders, but you can't order somebody to be happy. — Charles W. Colson

Most fears are exaggerated. As you go through life, your brain acquires expectations based on your experiences, particularly negative ones. When situations occur that are even remotely similar, your brain automatically applies its expectations to them; if it expects pain or loss, or even just the threat of these, it pulses fear signals. But because of the negativity bias, many expectations of pain or loss are overstated or completely unfounded. — Rick Hanson

You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads. — Wesley Snipes