Fightmaster Quotes & Sayings

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. — Thomas Hobbes

Meet people where they are at. — Anonymous

Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church from the state, and to break the mutual concord between temporal authority and the priesthood. It is certain that that concord which always was favorable and beneficial for the sacred and the civil order is feared by the shameless lovers of liberty. — Pope Gregory XVI

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more. — Seneca The Younger

Then you're going to stay in that net until eternity comes to pass. (Sin)
Well, that's really intelligent, isn't it? What are you going to do? Put drinks on me or just use me as a conversation piece whenever friends come over? And let's not even think about what's going to happen when I need to use the restroom, shall we? I hope you have a standing order at Sofa Express. (Kat) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research. — Jackie Collins

Things here are so different. Poisoned rivers, softened stone. You never know exactly what you're getting into. What will hold and what will give way — Ally Condie

The day you stop learning, my love, is the day you stop living. — Rachael Lucas

Do I dare ask him for what I want,
As if I knew it,
Could find it on some page
In some chapter
In some book? — Stasia Ward Kehoe

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War. — Tom Clancy

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it. — Abigail Washburn

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. — Jorge Luis Borges

Kien exhaled his relief. Until he saw the welcoming committee.
Bryce and Prill rushed toward Ela and Kien, exultant. Followed by Lorteus, the royal fightmaster. An unpleasant grin widened in Lorteus' battered face, and his voice grated harsh in Kien's ears. "Welcome sir! I've been sent ahead by order of our king to direct your recovery-seeing's how you nearly died by failing to heed my lessons. Good of his majesty, isn't it?"
Oh yes. Killing good. Kien rested a hand on the Azurnite sword-just in case-and he managed to look stern. "Fine. But not now Lorteus!"
"Of course not, sir' Lorteus agreed flatly. "Tonight, I clean the weapons. At dawn, I'll fetch you for work-to overcome your failure. Be ready."
As Ela linked her arm in his, Kien hissed, "He's going to kill me!"
"Hmm." Ela smiled and hugged him while they crossed the courtyard. "We think he's already done some good, sir. You're walking faster now. — R.J. Larson

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity. — Pitirim Sorokin

There is some evidence that dreaming is necessary. When people or other mammals are deprived of REM sleep (by awakening them as soon as the characteristic REM and EEG dream patterns emerge), the number of initiations of the dream state per night goes up, and, in severe cases, daytime hallucinations-that is, waking dreams-occur. — Carl Sagan