Cierne Detske Quotes & Sayings

You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another. — Gautama Buddha

Such people are not known for their sense of humour and lightness of touch; they rarely break a smile. To them, change is always suspect and usually damnable, and they hardly ever contribute to human development. — Paul Kriwaczek

Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434). — Rick Riordan

(aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak)
'Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you'
This took me by surprise. 'Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me. — Elizabeth Massie

While the choices we make matter, it's what we make of our choices that matters the most. — Thurman P. Banks Jr.

Real gold fears no fire. — Randy Alcorn

I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine. — Sammy Sosa

You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses ... I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death - if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach. — J.K. Rowling

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win. — Christiane Amanpour

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. — Claude McKay

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In a land of sand and ruin and gold
There shone one woman, and none but she — Algernon Charles Swinburne

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness, and caprice. — Emil Cioran

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience. — Simon Mainwaring

I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I ... wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang up on the ceiling, so many happy memories with this girl that they would crowd the ceiling and flap out into the hall and burst out of the house. — Maggie Stiefvater