Destruido Quotes & Sayings

What is teaching but the art of planting and nurturing power?" Lea replied. "Mortals prattle on about lonely impulses of delight and the gift of knowledge, and think that teaching is a trade like metalsmithing or healing or telling lies on television. It is not. It is the dissemination of power unto a new generation and nothing less. For her, as for you, lessons demand real risk in order to attain their true rewards. — Jim Butcher

I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who was much more interested in maternal and pseudo-maternal love, so they were unimportant to me. I didn't even notice the lack of men in the story until I finished it. But once I did notice it, I was kind of delighted. Apparently, my subconscious is totally sexist. — Janice Erlbaum

Library: A place where the dead lie. — Elbert Hubbard

when a victim tells her story and people respond with You-should-have-this or You-should-never-have-that, they are often adding to the victimization. — Gavin De Becker

I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living. — Joe Torre

I was rather hoping we could live happily in sin for a very long time. — Gail Carriger

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me. — Kyra Sedgwick

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface. — Brian Eno

It was a love of perpetual flight. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez