Marc Spector Quotes & Sayings

The important thing is to adopt a sense of always being deadly serious about protecting yourself. You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at the person. — Haruki Murakami

What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Ridiculous!" Chrysaor's voice turned shrill. He didn't seem sure where to level his sword-at Percy or his own crew.
"Save yourselves!" Percy warned. "It is too late for us!"
Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. "Oh, no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!"
Nothing happened.
"I said," Percy repeated, "Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!"
Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. "Oh, no," he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter. "I am turning into a crazy dolphin."
He began to change, his nose elongating into a snout, his skin becoming sleek and gray. He fell to the deck as a dolphin, his tail thumping against the boards.
The pirate crew disbanded in terror, chattering and clicking as they dropped their weapons, forgot the captives, ignored Chrysaor's orders, and jumped overboard. — Rick Riordan

It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know. — Michael Sam

You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion and surrender, whether we can put aside our own agendas and allow the spirit to move through us. — Marianne Williamson

A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. — Siegbert Tarrasch

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed. — Russell Kirk

If you never want to work, love what you do. — Lily J. Sant

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better. — Lester Levenson

The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually! — Gary Zukav

Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks. — Rene Char

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals. — Virginia Woolf

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom. — Robert D. Hare

Got a problem? Good that you know you have one. Otherwise people either don't know that they have or they don't accept the fact that they have any. — Vikrmn