Discomposes Quotes & Sayings

She was ten years old, after all. Alone and helpless and afraid. But here is truth, gentlefriends, no matter the number of suns in your sky. At the heart of it, two kinds of people live in this world or any other: those who flee and those who fight. Your kind has many terms for the latter sort. Berserker. Killer instinct. More balls than brains. And it shouldn't surprise you, knowing what little you know already, that in the face of this thug and his blade, and laden with memory of her father's execution never flinch never fear instead of wailing or breaking as another ten-year-old might have, young Mia gripped the stiletto she'd fished from the darkness, and slipped it straight up into the puppy-choker's eye. The — Jay Kristoff

Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves. — Viswanathan Anand

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings. — David Biespiel

Probably the most common last words that day were going to be Huh, that's weird. That or Oh shit. — James S.A. Corey

We have many kinds of energies in us, including the energies of anger, violence, and craving. But compassion is also a very strong energy. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Whereas all the other things, whether beast or vessel, that enter into the dreadful gulf of this monster's (whale's) mouth, are immediately lost and swallowed — Herman Melville

Although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love. — Erich Segal

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done. — Joseph Joubert

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing. — Immanuel Kant

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment. — Woody Allen

The investment game is getting more and more competitive. — Charlie Munger

Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you. — Orison Swett Marden

We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.'
Skulduggery Pleasant — Derek Landy

"Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying." — Robert Kiyosaki

Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness — Oscar Wilde