Grasshopper Master Quotes & Sayings

Like a stone falling in a pond, circles and circles of love ripple through me. — Jenny Downham

Magic is magic except to the magician. — Don Bradley

My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai — Barack Obama

A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone. — B.C. Forbes

We believe in the Australian promise; that if you work hard, you won't be left behind. — Wayne Swan

If you have no fear, no one has power over you. — John Maeda

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of. — Paula Radcliffe

To win you have to risk loss. — Jean-Claude Killy

Nothing is too small a subject for prayer, because nothing is too small to be the subject of God's care. — Henry Thomas Hamblin

My God", I said. "You move so silently. So you have had ninja training."
"I have two older brothers," Vince said. "It's the same thing."
I held up the white paper bag and bowed. "Master, I bring a gift."
He looked at the bag curiously. "My Buddha bless you, grasshopper. What is it?"
I tossed him the bag. It hit him in the chest and slid to the floor. "So much for ninja training," I said. — Jeff Lindsay

He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos. — Beth Revis

We're all as susceptible to the lure of power. — Nalini Singh

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. — Arthur C. Clarke

Ah, Young One," he said, holding up the box. "I have brought you a riddle: What is the essence of the moment but as fleeting as the wind?" "All that lives, Master," I said. "Plus, whatever is in the box." He beamed at me and opened the lid. "Snatch the cannoli, Grasshopper," he said, and I did. Over — Jeff Lindsay

I'm in charge here, don't forget it, he stated. I nodded, mesmerized. — Joanna Wylde