Orcrist Scabbard Quotes & Sayings

But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat. — J.M. Coetzee

If every birth is a rebirth, and if every life pays for the previous life, then what were you paying for in your first birth? You — Lee Strobel

I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew. — Queen Latifah

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted. — John DeChancie

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. — Morgan Freeman

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to. — Chrissie Hynde

Enlightenment, awakening or liberation can never be attained by seeking or desiring. It is realized only through experience. — Gian Kumar

The rainy days in life are what make us treasure the sunny days. — Suzannah Daniels

Hence arises the belief that traditional culture, which is always based on particular connections, identities, and meanings, is intrinsically oppressive; that "essentialism," the belief that things have a particular nature and significance, is ignorance and bigotry; and that "discrimination", treating one connection as more fitting than another for any non-technological reason, is irrational and wrong. — James Kalb

Before you go alter body, do some research and find out how many women have major life-threatening complications from nose jobs. Ask about how many nose jobs gone terribly wrong, and if you thought your face was wrong before, look what happens after. The more we start augmenting our bodies, the more and more we start to look alike, then nobody is special anymore. — Halle Berry

When Allah created the horse, he said to the wind, I will that a creature proceed from thee. Condense thyself.And the wind condensed itself, and the result was the horse. — Marguerite Henry

We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day. — Pope Francis

You have been with the same guy for three years. If anyone accuses you of being a whore for sleeping with the second man of your college career, I'll cut a bitch. — Angeline Kace