Diachronic Study Quotes & Sayings

How much farther?" I asked after we'd gone up one floor and through another ten minutes.
[ ... ]
"Uh ... I'm not exactly sure," Phaelan admitted.
I blinked. "What do you mean you're not sure? Where are we?"
"I'm not sure of that, either."
Phaelan looked slightly embarrassed. It wasn't a look I'd seen on him often, and considering what it implied, I didn't want to see it on him now.
I gaped at him. "We're lost?"
"I didn't say that."
"You didn't have to. You don't know where we are. That's called lost."
"The blueprints didn't include this floor. Besides, I prefer to think of it as temporarily misplaced. — Lisa Shearin

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As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your very best. — Joseph McGinty Nichol

Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years. — Sabine Baring-Gould

The proudest city in all the world was gone in an instant, its fabled empire vanished in a day, the Lands of the Long Summer scorched and drowned and blighted. — George R R Martin

Tezumen are the only people who beat themselves to death with their own suicide notes. — Terry Pratchett

I wanna be the ambassador to Chimichanga Flavor Town. — Guy Fieri

Tender and sweet, Manila clams partner well with a wide variety of foods - white wine, sake, beer, butter, leeks, fresh herbs, roasted peppers, olives, and wild mushrooms, to name a few. — Tom Douglas

A look into the Human Mind..of how we perceive..How can we see beauty in and around us..Not the correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous..BUT..pleasure that resides in the Sense of Self !! A Self living in a state of 'nothingness' and beauty as it lies there..from that place! Simple and Deft — Abha Maryada Banerjee

They thought he didn't know.
He'd trained himself to ignore it.
They thought he didn't care.
He'd forced himself not to. — Alyssa Day

Hephaestus glowered up at us. "I didn't make you, did I?"
Uh," Annabeth said, "no, sir."
Good," the god grumbled. "Shoddy workmanship. — Rick Riordan

This is the freeing truth you can learn through your depression: You weren't created to love and worship anything more than you love and worship God; and when you do, you'll feel bad. God has made you to feel pain when you've got other treasures that you've placed above Him. He wants you to treasure Him. — Elyse Fitzpatrick

All I need here is you — Claudia Gray

Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them. — Tim McIlrath