Jorund Yngvasson Quotes & Sayings

Honesty is occasionally the best policy," she said yawning. And then she added, "By the Black Staff of Beldar, I am tired. If I can find a usable bed in what's left of my house I intend to collapse on it. And Elwyn, if you disturb me before dawn, I promise, I will turn you into a train of thought, and lose you. — L.J.Smith

When placed in command, take charge. — Norman Schwarzkopf

Don't fear tomorrow, till today's done with you. — Celia Rees

Shizuo Heiwajima, the strongest man in Ikebukuro: I just want the ability to control myself. That's the kind of strength I want. — Ryohgo Narita

Leadership: Lions led by donkeys. — Erich Ludendorff

Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing. — Madeleine Albright

God's image has been imprinted uniquely on each of us. In God's infinite creativity there are no duplicates; you are the only you there has ever been or ever will be. — Dick Staub

With Theo's help and Nora's acquiescence she had begun, oysterlike, to coat over, to conceal what could not be borne as it was. The letter was not mentioned again. — Elizabeth Taylor

There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes. — Kameron Hurley

She drove too fast, and she braked too late, but the thing about Isabel was that she always managed to pull herself up before she went over the edge. — Maggie Stiefvater

If you haven't made a mistake I cast a jaundiced eye, because you're probably not doing anything. — John Peterman

The choice between James's vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who fought against Rome, and Paul's vision of a Roman religion that divorced itself from Jewish provincialism and required nothing for salvation save belief in Christ, was not a difficult one for the second and third generations of Jesus's followers to make.
Two thousand years later, the Christ of Paul's creation has utterly subsumed the Jesus of history. The memory of the revolutionary zealot who walked across Galilee gathering an army of disciples with the goal of establishing the Kingdom of God on earth, the magnetic preacher who defied the authority of the Temple priesthood in Jerusalem, the radical Jewish nationalist who challenged the Roman occupation and lost, has been almost completely lost to history. — Reza Aslan

We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else. — Barbara Demick

What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises. — Thomas Mann

Will had discovered, even before coming to the City, that his muse was, like all muses, an incredibly finicky and temperamental mistress. He'd had several good short stories over the years, a few of them bordering on brilliant, and some of them had even been published; but these gifts from his imaginary goddess of inspiration were, in truth, frustratingly infrequent. She would hang around and whisper in his ears for hours, or days, or weeks, and then suddenly go off on an extended vacation without informing Will of her whereabouts or when she planned to return. — Chris Lester