Nebador Quotes & Sayings

The sea is very beautiful and gives us many things, but it must be understood and respected, or it will slap you ... — J.Z. Colby

We only refer to sapient creatures as civilized when their society is willingly self-correcting. That means that any problem or imbalance that arises is fixed, and I mean really fixed - not ignored, not hidden, and not passed off to a future generation. — J.Z. Colby

I don't think Tera is capable of working with you by her own choice, no matter how much grass you pull for her, no matter how much you brush her. I think she's more like ... a three or four-year-old child, and you are her mother. Mothers must be firm with their children, sometimes make them do what needs to be done, sometimes even punish them. — J.Z. Colby

The world has many places that can make us uncomfortable. Calling them evil, or any other bad name, doesn't make them go away. — J.Z. Colby

I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you. — Myles Horton

The universe has no place for creatures who foul their nest and then set out on a journey they cannot survive. — J.Z. Colby

No, I will finish what I started, here, at Glimpa's Arch. The act belongs to me, the consequence, pleasing or not, belongs to the gods. — J.Z. Colby

She moaned. "We can't just keep having sex." "Why not? We've got months of frustration built up. — Nalini Singh

I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children. — Lucy Lawless

We are fond of saying that the Bible has all the answers. And that is certainly correct. The text of the Bible sets us in a reality that is congruent with who we are as created beings in God's image and what we are destined for in the purposes of Christ. But the Bible also has all the questions, many of them that we would just as soon were never asked of us, and some of which we will spend the rest of our lives doing our best to dodge. The Bible is a most comforting book; it is also a most discomfiting book. — Eugene H. Peterson

If you can't see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it's just as easy to not see them in your brother or sister when you can profit by treating them badly. — J.Z. Colby

Foolish Lily," he said. "Don't you know why I haven't touched you? Didn't you guess that once you were in my arms I would never let you go? — Connie Brockway

Do not wish to be anything except what you are. — Francis De Sales

I see things not as they are but as they might be. — Anonymous

There are a million things out there that can kill you, and about half of them are invisible. If you're going to stick your body parts into them just to see what will happen, even after I've warned you about them, then you won't live long, and you certainly can't work on my ship. — J.Z. Colby

It's a lot easier to patch things up with somebody when he doesn't even know you were pissed off at him in the first place. — Steve Kluger

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. — Sylvia Plath

When the enemies of Spire Albion were in the walls, the great-great granddaughter of old Admiral Tagwynn had refused to have a good lie-down, and it was as simple and as profound as that. — Jim Butcher

The universe is so arranged that the power to destroy the climate or the ecosystem of your home planet only comes when you also have the wisdom to know that doing so is a fatal mistake. Therefore, any species that does that is suicidal, and will probably not qualify for any kind of help, from the powers of the universe, with fixing that error. — J.Z. Colby

Mrs. Bennet was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about. — Jane Austen

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him. — Paul Banks

I can't feel too sorry for them. Every gift has to run out someday. Anyone but a child knows that. — J.Z. Colby

The cheapest car anyone can ever own is always the car they presently own. — Larry Burkett

The Gospel does not say, "you must do good works." Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect! — C.F.W. Walther

I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks, — Robyn Davidson

On a ship, knowing when to be silent is just as important as knowing when to speak. — J.Z. Colby