Ninefingers Quotes & Sayings

Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program. — J. D. Hayworth

'it's not that you are too small, my little chick,but rather that the world is too big. — Melanie Benjamin

He wondered for an idle moment if he'd ever see her again, but it didn't look likely. You have to be realistic, after all, and getting through tomorrow seemed like quite the ambition. — Joe Abercrombie

You think I ever stopped wanting to die after the motel?" I ask. "You think a feeling like that just goes away? — Courtney Summers

I'm going to continue posting on my YouTube. So I mean, if I get signed and come out with an album, it would be just another ... that is a goal of mine. — Nolan Sotillo

I tried to kill myself because I felt hopeless. You do this, I have hope. Okay?" "You're whoring me out. — C.D. Reiss

What? A family?" Ninefingers frowned, rubbing grimly at the stump of his middle finger. "I did have one. And now I've got another. You don't pick your family, you take what you'er given and you make the best of it." He pointed at
Ferro, then at Quai. "You see her, and him, and you?" He slapped his hand down on Jezal's shoulder. "That's my family now, and I don't pal on losing a brother today, you understand? — Joe Abercrombie

You have to realistic about these things. — Joe Abercrombie

Listen to me, even when you lose, it's OK to lose, but you can never get comfortable with it. You can never be satisfied with losing. When you lose, it's got to hurt. — Eric Thomas

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it. — Joe Abercrombie

Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he's a lover. — Joe Abercrombie

Still, as Logen Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it. He picked up his dress sword, but after a minute — Joe Abercrombie

Has it ever occured to you, Master Ninefingers, that a sword is different from other weapons? Axes and maces and so forth are lethal enough, but they hang on the belt like dumb brutes. But a sword ... a sword has a voice.
Sheathed it has little to say, to be sure, but you need only put your hand on the hilt and it begins to whisper in your enemy's ear. A gentle word. A word of caution. Do you hear it?
Now, compare it to the sword half drawn. It speaks louder, does it not? It hisses a dire threat. It makes a deadly promise. Do you hear it?
Now compare it to the sword full drawn. It shouts now, does it not? It screams defiance! It bellows a challenge! Do you hear it? — Joe Abercrombie

A choice between killing and dying is no choice at all. You have to be realistic about these things. b — Joe Abercrombie

An unhappily married woman is necessarily a bad cook. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

You have to be realistic — Joe Abercrombie

Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it. He — Joe Abercrombie

I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need. — Robert Mugabe

My point is that life on earth can take care of itself. In the thinking of a human being, a hundred years in a long time. A hundred years ago, we didn't have cars and airplanes and computers and vaccines...It was a whole different world. But to the earth, a hundred years is *nothing*. A million years is *nothing*. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We have been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we are gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us."

- Ian Malcolm — Michael Crichton