Grapnel Quotes & Sayings

Luckily I'm prepared for every eventuality," said Malicia, and reached into her bag. There was a sound as of lumps of metal and bottles being moved around. "What have you got in there?" said Maurice. "Everything?" "The grapnel and rope ladder take up a lot of the room," said Malicia, still feeling around. "And then there's the big medicine kit, and the small medicine kit, and the knife, and the other knife, and the sewing kit, and the mirror for sending signals, and ... these. — Terry Pratchett

Your gift lies in your soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore. — Felix J. Palma

The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself. — Joshua Oppenheimer

It's possible that the name Bettini came up at some point during a conversation with the German Cycling Federation's anti-doping commission, but I certainly didn't claim that he gave me any drugs. They made that up. Bettini warned me: If you said that, then things could get dangerous for you. — Patrik Sinkewitz

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce

For Tozer, entertainment was simply the Church synchronizing with the world and succumbing to it. It was utter nonsense to him that the Church wanted to bring itself "up to speed" with the world around it. A worldly church was, in Tozer's thinking, an oxymoron and completely anathema. — A.W. Tozer

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home — Marcus Tullius Cicero

When people thank you for doing something, you begin to realize how truly blessed you were to have been put in that position. — Jason Varitek

You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The child expects to look up to the parent, to be instructed by the parent, indeed to be commanded by the parent. If the parent instead serves the child, then that relationship falls out of its natural balance. You may not earn your child's love at all - and the — Leonard Sax