Decianus Quotes & Sayings

Still I was concerned that politics would get between us and our POWs. — Bo Gritz

I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you. — Jacques Lacan

If this was a middle-class family in Alfheim, I didn't want to split a lunch tab with the one-percenters. — Rick Riordan

Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness. — Garth Stein

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it. — Thomas Carlyle

They seem so close, as if they share an unspoken language, what with those secret looks between them at dinner the other night at the club - well, all along they've been that way. Laura continues. "Juliana got very quiet, and Daddy asked her what was wrong. She said parts of her life are still unsettled and she needs time to take care of that first. Daddy said he wants to help." "What did she say to that?" I put down my glass. — Niki Danforth

Blood for honor. That was the price then, as it was the price now. It was always the price of honor. Always blood. Always pain. And as the queen was scourged, he wondered if such a thing as honor really existed at all. For what was honor if it could not strip the pride from a barbarian woman even as she was beaten before her people? What was honor if he could only defend his own by doing this to her? Honor, Decianus thought, was just an excuse for war and mayhem. An excuse for taking. Whether the taking of a woman or the taking of one tribe against another, one empire over another, one emperor over the world. An emperor like the one he served . . . If this was honor, he wanted no part in it. — Ruth Downie

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life. — Lou Holtz

So many different kinds of love, harmonious in this one moment. It seemed a very hopeful picture to me. — Stephenie Meyer

How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet. — Ocean Vuong

I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant and got me through, as an adult those became my defects of character. Those became my shortcomings, control and all that kind of stuff ... and that's my responsibility.
I was a blameless child in what happened in the home; I take responsibility for my behaviors as an adult. — Ashley Judd

Production cutbacks have remained in place in the third quarter and this has helped to further reduce inventory levels worldwide. — Lakshmi Mittal

God clearly communicates His will for us through His Word. — Jim George