Greyface Quotes & Sayings

You said that you wanted to put us upon a reservation, to build us houses and make us medicine lodges. I was born where there were no enclosures and everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls. — Ten Bears

Life is not worth a single line of Baudelaire."
-from "The Life of a Stupid Man — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

I always knew that I wanted to do the most that I could for the most people. — Helene D. Gayle

It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to.
Polgara — David Eddings

But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins. — Mona Simpson

From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logical man could understand oceans and waterfalls without having ever seen or heard of them. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own. — Malaclypse The Younger

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been. — Agathon

That was thirteen hundred years ago. This is really no improvement upon the work of the Roman augurs. Has the trade of interpreting the Lord's matters gone out, discouraged by the time-worn fact that nobody succeeds at it? No, it still flourishes; there was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it. Whenever there has been an opportunity to attribute to Him reasonings and conduct which would make a half-witted human being ridiculous, there has always been an expert ready and glad to take advantage of it. — Mark Twain

She feels and she cries. It is to be admired. — James Frey

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing. — James Vincent McMorrow

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns. — Nicholas Sparks

Only morons smoke — Cynthia Hand