Leighton Dickson Quotes & Sayings

Do I even want this burden any more? Probably not, I'm too old, too tired. And what, after all. have I achieved in all this time? — Stephen Lloyd Jones

The apostle Paul had much to say about the immorality of individual church members, but little to say about the immorality of pagan Rome. He did not rail against the abuses in Rome - slavery, idolatry, gladiator games, political oppression, greed - even though such abuses surely offended Christians of that day every bit as much as our deteriorating society offends Christians today. — Philip Yancey

It more often than not involves a measuring of self, of what is right against what is want. Often these points of decision carry him(or her) down roads that, later, are regretted and even cursed. — H. Leighton Dickson

The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men. — Freda Adler

Above all things, dragons are loyal. Perhaps that is what makes us to amenable to life with sticks. Our characters are larger than their shortfalls. — H. Leighton Dickson

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Life turned dragons to stone. Stars to ash, gold to coal. — H. Leighton Dickson

Might it be that the voice of truth can come from the suffering soul who has wrestled with God over mysteries and paradoxes? Might the voice of truth be the one that in wisdom and humility says, "I don't know"? — Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

When there are a hundred dragons in the sky, it is Hell Down and Hallow Fire. It is the winds of a hurricane and the roar of the storm. We blot out the sun, we blacken the clouds, we churn the sea like foam. It is a magnificent, terrifying sight. — H. Leighton Dickson

Sometimes I want to be human for you. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up. — Sugar Ray Leonard

It is folly to waste labour about trifles. — Martial

There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples' production. — Stephen Covey

Let it be so; thy truth then be thy dower: — William Shakespeare

We didn't have words. We didn't have writing or maps or language, but we had music and in that music, we spoke victory and loss, sadness and rage. We sang fire and water, earth and sky. We wrote the history of the Battle of Lamos and told the story of Selisanae of the Sun and wove the tragedy of the lives and deaths of dragons in every land. It was marvellous. — H. Leighton Dickson

remembered the eye in the tent guilt with gold. "Just — H. Leighton Dickson

Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he worked. — China Mieville

We can self-censor ourselves for various reasons, but we can't live in a world where some person or some group decides what's offensive and what's not. — Steve Breen

Trust was, after all, a freely given commodity. Once lost, it was not easily — H. Leighton Dickson

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush! — Agatha Christie

Your breathing should flow gracefully,
like a river, like a watersnake crossing
the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop of a horse. To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used. — Thich Nhat Hanh

the same with dragons. So that morning, I shook the snow from my head and gazed — H. Leighton Dickson