Manannan Quotes & Sayings

Yes, I felt guilt. Somehow I had pushed Fand to the precipice without realizing it, and had I not been so blind, perhaps she wouldn't be trying to pull us all over the edge with her now. I was sure Manannan felt it too-the crushing questions of how we got to this place and whether we could have avoided it, where we went wrong, and whether we would ever learn how not to cock up other people's lives in the course of living our own. — Kevin Hearne

I? What am I?" roared the President, and he rose slowly to an incredible height, like some enormous wave about to arch above them and break. "You want to know what I am, do you? Bull, you are a man of science. Grub in the roots of those trees and find out the truth about them. Syme, you are a poet. Stare at those morning clouds. But I tell you this, that you will have found out the truth of the last tree and the top-most cloud before the truth about me. You will understand the sea, and I shall be still a riddle; you shall know what the stars are, and not know what I am. Since the beginning of the world all men have hunted me like a wolf - kings and sages, and poets and lawgivers, all the churches, and all the philosophies. But I have never been caught yet, and the skies will fall in the time I turn to bay. I have given them a good run for their money, and I will now. — G.K. Chesterton

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

They need to get a good PR guy." "What's a PR guy?" "They're kind of like the old Greek sophists who played with words until you believed up was down. PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile of shit is an investment in soil fertility. Professional liars." "Ah!" Manannan's expression lit with comprehension. "They are politicians?" "No, they're smarter and less pretty. They advise politicians. — Kevin Hearne

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. — Stephen Covey

I Keep a Wholesome Table."
Manannan Mac Lir — Kevin Hearne

Whenever I do a movie I always like to base my character off of a couple different characters. — The Miz

We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden. — Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Manannan's door-cum-portal — Kevin Hearne

I thought I was in love, but it was only a head cold. (Humans) — Robert Emmett

That and loneliness. — Dean Koontz

The heat of charity opens the doors of the heart. The heat of charity brings solar faith to the Mind. Charity is Conscious Love. — Samael Aun Weor

PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile of shit is an investment in soil fertility. Professional liars."
"Ah!"
Manannan's expression lit with comprehension. "They are politicians? — Kevin Hearne

Western civilization places so much emphasis on the idea of hope that we sacrifice the present moment. Hope is for the future. It cannot help us discover joy, peace, or enlightenment in the present moment. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Oh, Sam, you have the face of a child but the eyes of an old man. — Rick Yancey

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne — Laurie Stevens