Dawnshard Quotes & Sayings

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail. — Philip Sidney

- With respect, Professor McGonagall, I'm not quite sure you understand what I'm trying to do here.
- With respect, Mr. Potter, I'm quite sure I don't. Unless - this is a guess, mind - you're trying to take over the world?
- No! I mean yes - well, NO!
- I think i should perhaps be alarmed that you have trouble answering the question. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Kafkaesque

The term's meaning has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical. — Franz Kafka

The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock, and the auspicious moment seems to have arrived to strike a great and mortal blow at the Rebellion, and to gain that decisive victory which is due to the country. — Ambrose Burnside

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone. — Mahatma Gandhi

Life was full of the ludicrous that ended in bloody murder. — J.D. Robb

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act. — David Suzuki

Be willing to take a stand for the things you believe in, because no one else will stand there for you. — Lolly Daskal

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians. — Sally Quinn

The triumph of sugar over diabetes. — George Jean Nathan

Does the work yield insights? Did it challenge me to think? Does it suggest a different view of the world? Do I know something I didn't know before? — Gareth Cook

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt no sorrow or guilt after the act; those so obsessed with themselves that they turned their backs on the sufferings of others, and left them in pain; those whose greed meant that others starved and died. Such souls belong here, because they would find no peace elsewhere. In this place, they are understood. In this place, their faults have meaning. In this place, they belong. — John Connolly

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character. — Jonathan Shapiro

Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can happen), so in that sense the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. But the question isn't whether society is, in some sense, more equal than it was in 1900. It's whether it is radically more unequal than it was in 1970. And of course it is. — Paul Krugman