Ixion Saga Dt Quotes & Sayings

Fear is an unavoidable element of the mortal condition. Creation in all its ravishing beauty, with its infinite baroque embellishments and subtle charms, with all the wonders that it offers from both the Maker and the made, with all its velvet mystery and with all the joy we receive from those we love here, so enchants us lack we lack the imagination, less than the faith, to envision an even more dazzling world beyond, and therefore even if we believe, we cling tenaciously to this existence, to sweet familiarity, fearful that all conceivable paradises will prove wanting by comparison. — Dean Koontz

Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate. — Walter Scott

You can practice against each other, but there's something about a game situation. — James Worthy

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. — Sean O'Faolain

It is always impossible until it is done. — Nelson Mandela

How drugs patchworked simple, banal thoughts into phrases that seemed filled with importance. My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning. I wanted Russell to be a genius. — Emma Cline

Under it, she yelled in pain. "I survive all those battles," she growled, "and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock! — Rick Riordan