Octobase Quotes & Sayings

Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards - not :not doing magic" because they couldn't do magic, but not doing magic when they could do and didn't. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn't been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again. — Terry Pratchett

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence. — Theodore White

Dreaming is a journey through wonder, surprise, and freedom. — Anthony Lawlor

He began with the core principle he had intoned at the dawn of his political career 25 years before: A democratic Calvinist in the Netherlands could not vote Democratic in the United States because that party trays its origins to Thomas Jefferson, who in turn had endorsed the principles of the French Revolution. — James Bratt

God is glorified not by calling strong women but by giving His strength to weak women. — Lydia Brownback

Automobiles are unreliable and dangerous slaves. They frequently revolt and kill their masters. I hate them. — Michael D. O'Brien

Take your finger out of your nose, Miss Steal. — Fanny Merkin

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. — David Lynch