Cursebreaker Destiny Quotes & Sayings

The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66. — Robert Venturi

People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead. — Arundhati Roy

Guns and swords are ineffective against the complex and varied assaults of an environment thrown out of natural balance. — Ed McGaa

Yes. Fortunately, before I died, I put a plan into motion. I can't remember it, but I'm certain that it was brilliant."
"You know, I've said something similar myself on occasion, after a night of drinking." Kelsier rubbed his chin. "I'm free too. — Brandon Sanderson

Even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn. — Richard Paul Evans

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. — Paul Klee

I am in love with a dragon.
Let the Order condemn me, I mused, perhaps my first truly rebellious thought in a lifetime. Let them call me a traitor and hunt me down. For thirteen years, I had followed commands, livid by the rigid code of St. George, become their perfect soldier, only to discover the Order I'd dedicated my life to was wrong. Everything I thought I'd knew was a lie. The only real thing was the girl in my arms. — Julie Kagawa

I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there. — Tommy Shaw

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one. — Philippe Falardeau

I went through my rebellious phase, not in my teenage years, but around age 12. The year I decided I didn't want to do entertainment anymore, I was discovered. And I couldn't back down from that. — Jessica White

Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet. — Henry David Thoreau

One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing. — Grantland Rice

Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in the mild contemplation of the great world through which you move. True, it is said of the Shepherd that he carries the lambs in his bosom: but the sheep are expected to walk, and put up with the inequalities of the road, the bunts and blunders of the flock. It — Evelyn Underhill

Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It was an urge ... A strong urge, and the longer I let it go the stronger it got, to where I was taking risks to go out and kill people-risks that normally, according to my little rules of operation, I wouldn't take because they could lead to arrest. — Edmund Kemper