Gylve In Lords Quotes & Sayings

Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance. — George Richard Marek

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth. — Orson Scott Card

Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise. — Rumi

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime. — Zoltan Kodaly

Even a bucket can be a weapon if it's wielded with malicious intent. — Jodi Taylor

I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive. — Colin Meloy

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure. — Theodore White

An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to emulate its author. For that, we should learn what we can of the whole experience of the subject, the hero's life, as it was before and after, and believe that trying to emulate the character it reveals is one tried way to prepare for the tests that might await us and gain hope that our courage will not be wanting in the moment. — John McCain

Veiled melancholy has her sovereign shrine — Stephanie Danler

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?" — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Publican, in that he was an extortioner, unjust and an adulterer, made it thereby manifest that he did not love his neighbour; and thou by making a god, a saviour, a deliverer, of thy filthy righteousness, dost make it appear, that thou dost not love thy God; — John Bunyan

We all - adults and children, writers and readers - have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different. — Neil Gaiman

You could kind of say that I was ready for war. If our marriage was over, then so be it. — Nika Michelle

Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wasn't mad at her, but if he was she couldn't blame him.
If it keeps him going, she thought, then let him be angry. — Rick Riordan