Glaive Master Quotes & Sayings

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.
The usual way of looking at things sees objects as it were from the midst of them, the view sub specie aeternitatis from outside.
In such a way that they have the whole world as background. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

RANGER HAD BEEN Special Forces, and he still had the build and the carriage. He was standing close, forcing me to tip my head back ever so slightly to look into his eyes. — Janet Evanovich

I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author. — Amish Tripathi

Well, it certainly is nice to be free from the threat of that lamp, my boy." Chains drew a last breath of smoke, then rubbed his dwindling sheaf of tobacco out against the roof stones. "Was it informing for the duke? Plotting to murder us? — Scott Lynch

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read. — Jill Abramson

The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. ... The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader. — Derek Sivers

I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater. — Tavi Gevinson

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals. — Bruce Beresford

The mind is the greatest of all human forces. Control the mind and you control the body. — Griffin Jay

She was backing away from him now. Don't go, was his first panicked thought. Followed by: Hurry up. — Julie Anne Long

While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. — Claude Levi-Strauss

Friendship of the unshakeable kind. Friendship you could swear on. That could be busted nearly to breaking and come back stronger than before. — Maggie Stiefvater