Fiaba Petrosinella Quotes & Sayings

Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict. — Starhawk

No age seemed the age of romance to itself. — Thomas Carlyle

Too much ambition can be the death of a man. ... Or of many, if he can persuade them to follow. — Lynette Hill

Whatsoever you set your hands on doing, do it in such a way that your work will always stand out. — Bien Sufficient

If you watch what the birds and wild animals do, you can survive pretty much anywhere, because they know things humans have forgotten, such as what's poisonous and what's not, and what it means when things suddenly get too quiet, and where to hide when what it means is danger. — Jenny Wingfield

But anyone with witch-blood in their veins was worth keeping an eye on.
Or Thirteen. — Sarah J. Maas

Though Kurt would later claim that his graffiti messages were political, in fact, most of what he wrote was nonsensical. He enraged a neighbor with a boat by painting "Boat Ack" in red letters on the ship's hull; on the other side he lettered, "Boat people go home. — Charles R. Cross

Newton screamed when he felt them begin to crawl over his scrotum and try to wiggle between his buttocks — Jonathan Maberry

Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color. — Al Capp

I needed to take control of the dream. I held out a hand with fingers splayed and focused my will. "Zzzzzzzsssst! Pshew! Zzzzist!" I said. But nothing happened.
"What in Sang are you doing, love?" he asked.
My arm dropped to my side. "I was trying to shoot lightning bolts out of my fingertips," I said. Then, quietly, "It usually works."
"Told you it wasn't a dream. Do you want to try flying, too?"
Sheepishly, I gave a little hop, but my feet came back down to the ground.
"No," I said, feeling sullen and embarrassed and on the verge of outright panic. — Delilah S. Dawson

Stalin's mental journey, by 1943, proceeded in the opposite direction to that of Hitler. One moved toward reality; the other moved away from it. They crossed paths at Stalingrad. And as the war turned on the hinge of that battle (and on the new psychological opposition), Stalin might have concerned himself with a "counterfactual": if, instead of decapitating his army, he had intelligently prepared it for war, Russia might have defeated Germany in a matter of weeks. Such a course of action, while no doubt entailing grave consequences of its own, would have saved about 40 million lives, including the vast majority of the victims of the Holocaust. — Martin Amis

Write your "ass" off! Read! Learn! Get Better! Have fun! — Bob Stegner