Markarth Guard Quotes & Sayings

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it. — Mark Glamack

Laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature. — Karl Marx

There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna give me. But what I would ask of ye
when you do tell me something, let it be the truth. And I'll promise ye the same. We have nothing now between us, save
respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies. Do ye agree? — Diana Gabaldon

What distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity. — Soren Kierkegaard

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves. — Simone Weil

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God. — Catherine Booth

But this I can say for certain: though I did that cruel thing purposely, it was not an impulse from the heart, but camefrom my evil brain. This cruelty was so affected, so purposely made up, so completely a product of the brain, of books, that I could not even keep it up a minute
first I dashed away to avoid seeing her, and then in
shame and despair rushed after Liza. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race. — Walt Whitman

Crave the small, tactile simplicity of my new Kindle Paperwhite in its purple leather cover, which is currently home to what would make up around three boxes of physical books, but whose screen's digital imprint is flattened of all memory and association. It's soulless and almost weightless. — Linda Grant

It does not do to hurry the archer, it makes him miss. — Stephen R. Lawhead

My favorite animal in the park is the grizzly, icnonic, graceful, and with eyes that seem to know, and what they know is sad. — Danielle Rohr

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised. — Elvis Costello

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? — Marina Tsvetaeva

Do not cast your boat on a river of tears, cried the tearing wind. Small hands are still, be still. She knelt then lay on her side, clutching a key, accepting kindness of endless sleep. — Patti Smith