Hamershlag Quotes & Sayings

Every question that can be answered must be answered or at least engaged. Illogical thought processes must be challenged when they arise. Wrong answers must be corrected. Correct answers must be affirmed. - From the Erudite faction manifesto CHAPTER ONE TRIS I PACE IN our cell in Erudite headquarters, her words echoing in my mind: My name will be Edith Prior, and there is much I am happy to forget. — Anonymous

When finally the sky grew ink-black, the trees were visible only as their swaying branches blotted out the stars that crossed in blazing showers, as sometimes they do. The language of the stars, seldom read and heeded less, told beautifully and in silence of all the victories that had ever been won and all the defeats ever suffered. In uncountable lines of light across the widest sphere, the stars spoke of everything notable even down to a leaf blowing rhythmically in the wind. — Mark Helprin

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body. — Antonio Damasio

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. — Bhagat Singh

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. — Jacob Bronowski

Never depart from the way of martial arts. — Miyamoto Musashi

I want to make it a little inconvenient for everybody to get to me. — Jesse Jackson Jr.

I see myself through others eyes and I am made anew. — Molly Moore

You're probably thinking: Wait, you just charged in without a plan?
But Annabeth and I had been fighting together for years. We knew each other's abilities. We could anticipate each other's moves. I might have felt awkward and nervous about being her boyfriend, but fighting with her? That came naturally.
Hmm ... that sounded wrong. Oh, well. — Rick Riordan

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight. — William McNamara

Sex can be estranging; it can drive two otherwise compatible people apart. — Valerie Martin

From Monday morning until Saturday night, I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven! — Charles Dickens

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. — Evan Davis

No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him. — H.L. Mencken

The burden of that responsibility wicked the blood from hes stomach ans sent it crashing through her arteries, — Stephen Lloyd Jones