Chade Quotes & Sayings

If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous. — Chade-Meng Tan

Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it. — Chade-Meng Tan

I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me.
I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had. — Robin Hobb

Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss. — Chade-Meng Tan

Elliania wore her cloak of narwhals and bucks, and somehow a doublet that matched it perfectly had been created for the Prince. Dutiful's simple coronet had been replaced with an ornate harvest crown, and in that I saw Chade's subtle hand, for he displayed the Prince as a crowned king before his dukes. Ceremonial it might be, yet it could not fail to leave an impression. Elliania was crowned, as well. Whereas the Prince wore a crown of gilded antlers, hers featured a single narwhal horn enameled in blue and trimmed in silver. When — Robin Hobb

Boy," Chade remarked quietly. "Never pretend we are anything but what we are. Assassins. Not merciful agents of a wise king. Political assassins dealing death for the furtherance of our monarchy. That is what we are. — Robin Hobb

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. — Hippocrates

Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you. — Robin Hobb

I wish men had boobs because I like the feel of them. It's so funny - when I record I sing with a hand over each of them, maybe it's a comfort thing. — Emma Bunton

What we think, do, and pay attention to changes the structure and functions of our brains! — Chade-Meng Tan

Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil! — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government. — Joan Robinson

Chade, I know the Fool is strange. But I like it when he comes to talk to me. He speaks in riddles, and he insults me, and makes fun of me, and gives himself leave to tell me things he thinks I should do, like wash my hair, or not wear yellow. But ( ... ) I like him. He mocks me, but from him, it seems a kindness. He makes me feel, well, important. That he could choose me to talk to. — Robin Hobb

If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world. — Chade-Meng Tan

That was Verity's way. MOnths had passed since we had last spoken but he took no times for greetings. Chade said it was a lack in him, that he didn't make his men feel their importance to him. I think he believed that if anything significant had happened to me, someone would have told him. He had a bluff heartiness to him that I enjoyed, an attitude that things must be going well unless someone ahd told him otherwise. — Robin Hobb

I could almost see the resignation on the old man's face. I knew he would draw a breath and sigh that I insisted on stacking all my pain in one pile, facing it all at once."
p. 480 Fitz about Chade — Robin Hobb

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. — Albert Camus

On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed. — Kay Lenz

The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be. — Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect.""

"p. 267: Chade to Fitz — Robin Hobb

All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day.
-Fitz
Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
-Chade
When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.
-Burrich
We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life.
-Fitz — Robin Hobb

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative. — Harold Geneen

Does anything feel worse than being angry with people you love?"
"P. 307: Fitz to Chade — Robin Hobb

It was the first time she had ever felt the kind of loneliness that couldn't be cured with just any available company. — Lisa Kleypas

I would be bored to death if I didn't control a country
Gin — Mayu Shinjo

Young, Chade suggested. Young and full of righteous fury. Hurt and heartbroken, I suggested. So tired of being thwarted. Tired of being bound by rules that no one else had to follow. — Robin Hobb

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm. — Chade-Meng Tan

There is always power in holding a secret. — Robin Hobb

Suddenly, everything was easy and clear. I simply did whatever Chade told me to do, and trusted to him to have it turn out right. My spirit rode high on the crest of that wave of faith, and sometime during the night it occurred to me: this was what Burrich had had from Chivalry, and what he missed so badly. — Robin Hobb

I was always very different from the other kids. I have an I.Q. of 156. I didn't play sports. I thought big. I thought I could achieve great things. I don't want to sound megalomaniac, but my whole life is about doing something for the world, from as far back as I can remember. — Chade-Meng Tan

If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I'd say definitely. — Chade-Meng Tan

It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. — Robin Hobb

realized during the practice that a lot of what was holding me back originated from my fear of pain and suffering, and once I found myself capable of breathing in the pain and suffering of myself and others, and comfortable radiating kindness, love, and compassion, a lot of the fetters holding me back dissolved away. — Chade-Meng Tan