Nepstad Creek Quotes & Sayings

Serenity, we did not mean to offend you. We thought only to help."

Maia set his cup down too hard, slopping tea into the saucer, his entire body hot with shame. "We apologize," he said. "We spoke ungraciously and out of ill temper which we should not have inflicted on you. We should not have disparaged your service, for which we are so truly grateful. We are sorry."

"Serenity," Csevet said uncomfortably, "you should not speak so to us." "

Why not?"

Csevet opened his mouth and closed it again. Then, deliberately, he set down his cup, stood up, and with infinite grace prostrated himself beside the table. Isheian watched him with alarm. Csevet stood up again, unruffled and perfect, and said, "The Emperor of the Elflands does not apologize to his secretary. And yet, we thank you for doing that which the emperor does not." He smiled, a warm beautiful smile that made his face suddenly, momentarily alive, and sat down again. "Serenity. — Katherine Addison

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense. — Chris Prentiss

It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble. — Marcel Proust

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure. — Barbara Hepworth

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? — Richard Dawkins

Bless that which you want. If you see a person with a beautiful home, bless that person and bless that home. If you see a person with a beautiful car, bless that person and bless that car. If you see a person with a loving family, bless that person and bless that family. If you see a person with a beautiful body, bless that person and bless their body. — T. Harv Eker

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me. — Paula Patton

Demons smell like ass - nasty ass that slithers down your throat, finds your gag reflex, and sits on it with authority. — Kevin Hearne

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle. — Linda Hogan

When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier. — John Deacon

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge — Laozi

I have become an orchid
washed in on the salt white beach.
Memory,
what can I make of it now
that might please you-
this life, already wasted
and still strewn with miracles? — Mary Ruefle

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living. — Owen D. Young