Janissary Quotes & Sayings

At the entrance of this street, a Janissary was pinned to a wooden door by an eight-foot-long spear, which Jack looked on as proving that Yevgeny had passed by there recently. — Neal Stephenson

have you noticed that people are slow to see the good things you do but quick to see your faults. The Highway Patrol for example. — Thomas Madachik

The government here is entirely in the hands of the army. The Grand Signor [Ottoman Sultan], with all his absolute power, is as much a slave as any of his subjects, and trembles at a janissary's frown. — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Hunt was the janissary of a dead vernacular. — Erik Larson

I'm bad at golf. — Seth MacFarlane

Technically it's not premarital sex if you don't plan on marrying them. — Daniel Tosh

Sometimes I felt like the mundane details of our lives were the only things tethering me to the world. I could hold onto them - distractions necessitating action. They gave me a sense of purpose. If not for the leaky faucet, the sandwiches, the bills, I might not know what to do with my hands. — T. Greenwood

Well, God knows what you used to be, then, because you're built like a brick shithouse and hung like a horse. — K.J. Charles

I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that's organized. — Nikki Sixx

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. — John Steinbeck

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership. — Harriet Harman

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution - like, what do we want to be when we grow up? — Paul Gilding

The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul. — Vaclav Havel

She would never be the best Janissary, because she would never be a Janissary. She could never be powerful on her own, because she would always be a woman. — Kiersten White