Ensis Directus Quotes & Sayings

Oh my dear, no matter who you are, where you are, or how you are, I can hear your song. I can feel your pain, and I really care. — Debasish Mridha

Now, there is a tendency at a point like this to look over one's shoulder at the cover artist and start going on at length about leather, tightboots and naked blades.
Words like 'full', 'round' and even 'pert' creep into the narrative, until the writer has to go and have a cold shower and a lie down.
Which is all rather silly, because any woman setting out to make a living by the sword isn't about to go around looking like something off the cover of the more advanced kind of lingerie catalogue for the specialized buyer.
Oh well, all right. The point that must be made is that although Herrena the Henna-Haired Harridan would look quite stunning after a good bath, a heavy-duty manicure, and the pick of the leather racks in Woo Hun Ling's Oriental Exotica and Martial Aids on Heroes Street, she was currently quite sensibly dressed in light chain mail, soft boots, and a short sword.
All right, maybe the boots were leather. But not black. — Terry Pratchett

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong. — Louis Sachar

To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice. — Uma Thurman

When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences
their insignificant, everyday experiences
so that they become an arable soil that bears fruit three times a year, while others
and how many there are!
are driven through surging waves of destiny, the most multifarious currents of the times and the nations, and yet always remain on top, bobbing like a cork, then we are in the end tempted to divide mankind into a minority (a minimality) of those who know how to make much of little, and a majority of those who know how to make little of much. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The first step to that kingdom of God within is to find peace within even among chaos. — N.K.David

Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago. — Samuel Smiles

Betrayer! Long ago we promised
To exchange equally, gift for gift.
Take this curse: What you destroy will destroy you. — Ann Leckie

There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer. — Michael Gove

It is to be hoped, indeed, that LANGUAGE, here as elsewhere, will not get over its awkwardness, and that it will continue to talk of opposites where there are only degrees and many refinements of gradation — Friedrich Nietzsche

I had my back waxed once by two women ... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break? — Robin Williams

I don't get emails from my corporate overlords. — Craig Ferguson

My lady,' said the servant girl, 'are those who sit at the table great if they are enslaved to their own selfish needs and wishes? Are those who serve the table less if they are free to love? The giver of love receives. The one who understands is understood. The one who consoles receives consolation...'

That day the servant was set free for saying strong things gently and gentle things strongly. — Joann Davis