Presences Def Quotes & Sayings

You could be the Mega Mage of wizards. You could rule Minionfire.
Do you really think so?'
Yeah, but you'd have to make a deal with the wood elves.'
I don't like the wood elves.'
They're okay. They're misunderstood. — Janet Evanovich

I was teaching introductory geology at Caltech for the first time. I'm not a geologist. I've never taken a single class in geology. If you gave me a handful of different types of rocks, chances are I could identify only a small number of them. I still get confused by the meanings of strike and dip. Luckily, most of my students didn't realize this. — Mike Brown

This book is dedicated to the uncool, uncoordinated, unexceptional, uncharming, uninteresting, and especially the unashamed. To everyone from the Awkwards to the Zeroes, living as the proud oddballs they are. This book is dedicated to my people. — Drew Hayes

It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves. — Joseph Bruchac

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion. — Elbert Hubbard

Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me. — Hans Christian Andersen

How can anybody in his right mind be against science? — Kurt Vonnegut

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did. — Sanford I. Weill

Be kind. Be kind to others, be kind to animals, be kind to yourself. Smile at the mailman, pet your dog, buy yourself an ice cream cone. Spreading kindness in this world is the noblest thing a person can do. — Shenita Etwaroo

And here you are, a stripling of a boy who has already survived the worst this land can throw at a body, but suddenly ready to give up after one mistake?" Dr. Snailwater's voice grew fierce. "You should be grateful some things can be fixed."
"What if I can't?" Jack asked in a small voice.
"Then you try again! — Emma Trevayne

Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it? — Alan Cohen

I live to hold communion With all that is divine, To feel there is a union Twixt Natures heart and mine. — George Linnaeus Banks

Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth? — H.G.Wells

Reading snow is like listening to music. To describe what you've read is like explaining music in writing. — Peter Hoeg

Be close to another human being at that instant was enough to convince one, however briefly, that something beyond understanding passed from the body with that final sigh, that some essence began its journey from this world to another. — John Connolly