Matins Prayer Quotes & Sayings

The reason I'm keeping her secret for her, pretending that I don't know she's a girl is because I don't want to lose her. And that's exactly why I can't let her know that I know. — Hisaya Nakajo

If someone takes my eye, Do not take his eye for me, Take his eye and give it to the blind child, Who still cries though he has no eyes to see. — Loa Xing

He books it into that little playground there. I mean the guy is zooming like the Road Runner, skidding through the gravel and the slush and everything. I'm yelling, "Police, police! Stop, motherfucker!"

'You do not yell, "Stop, motherfucker."'

'I do. Because you know, Palace, this is it. This is the last chance I get to run after a perp yelling, "Stop, motherfucker. — Ben H. Winters

If you don't stop playing with that dress, I'm going to rip it right off of you, and we won't be heading for dinner. — Patricia Briggs

She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. — Terry Pratchett

Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that world completely. Search it to find your deepest longings and most terrible fears. Let imagination carry you as far as it may, as long as you recount the voyage with excitement and wonder. But this is the most important rule: write the book you most long to read. — Steven Saylor

DECISIVENESS SEPARATES GREAT LEADERS FROM DREAMERS AND TALKERS. — Jack Canfield

Act by everyone, in the same manner as if you supposed yourself to be him, and him to be you. — Hierocles

It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind. — Steven Pinker

Hours of the day were named for the hours of prayer: matins around midnight; lauds around three A.M.; prime, the first hour of daylight, at sunrise or about six A.M.; vespers at six in the evening; and compline at bedtime. — Barbara W. Tuchman

A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character. — William Morris