Chrysoprase Quotes & Sayings

Gnostics can awaken to the real state of Illumination only through the understanding and elimination of dreams. — Samael Aun Weor

Greed and envy took from a man's heart everything but - well, greed and envy. — Ruth Rendell

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism. — Frederick Lenz

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that. — Edna Ferber

All of those things - rock and men and river - resisted change, resisted the coming as they did the going. Hood warmed and rose slowly, breaking open the plain, and cooled slowly over the plain it buried. The nature of things is resistance to change, while the nature of process is resistance to stasis, yet things and process are one, and the line from inorganic to organic and back is uninterrupted and unbroken. — William Least Heat-Moon

Yes, but Chrysoprase the troll has this odd little thing about money that turns into lead the next day," said Teatime cheerfully. "So our friend needs to earn a little cash in a hurry and in a climate where arms and legs stay on. — Terry Pratchett

Seeing her step so easily from the pantry and emerge looking precisely as she did when she entered, only happier, taught Sula that sex was pleasant and frequent, but otherwise unremarkable. — Toni Morrison

The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man — Norman Whiteside

Most people never live up to the potential they have been given. The results they produce and the life they experience are only a tiny fraction of what they are truly capable of. Why? What stops us? Only one thing: fear. — Darren Hardy

Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie. — Robert Jordan

Things are different now. A book I read said three things changed rural America: the breakup of the family farm; — George Hodgman

I'm not a believer of the "perfect world" TV tries to feed us. — Marilyn Manson

Nothing says "i came here to win" like jazz hands — Josh Ramsay

That kind of monotony that running generates - the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements - became a kind of metaphor for depression. — Matt Haig

When a human doctor, after much bleeding and cupping, finds that a patient has died out of sheer desperation, he can always say, "Dear me, will of the gods, that will be thirty dollars please," and walk away a free man. This is because human beings are not, technically, worth anything. A good racehorse, on the other hand, may be worth twenty thousand dollars. A doctor who lets one hurry off too soon to that great paddock in the sky may well expect to hear, out of some dark alley, a voice saying something on the lines of "Mr. Chrysoprase is very upset," and find the brief remainder of his life full of incident. — Terry Pratchett