Radchaai Quotes & Sayings

Magic = Lie! Magic It is based on lies and fast movements. The idea is to make the folks around you to look where you want this objective and you say some kind a words like "Shizama Lqma" and you just do the other part
and you make it appear from somewhere else and that's all! — Deyth Banger

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. — Don Shula

I've given up on life. Or life's given up on me. Either way I'm done." And then his voice hitches and quiets. "Finish me. — Kim Holden

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea. — Ann Leckie

Imagine your whole life aimed at conquest, at the spread of Radchaai space. You see murder and destruction on an unimaginable scale, but they see the spread of civilisation, of Justice and Propiety, of Benefit for the universe. The death and destruction, these are unavoidable by-products of this one, supreme good. — Ann Leckie

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health. — Alec Baldwin

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven. — Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

Do you think this is it? That the life we have here on earth is all we'll have together?"
He looked at me with a half smile on his face. "I believe that true love exists. And I believe there are souls in this world that are meant to be together in this life and anything that comes after. After all this time, I've finally got you where I want you. There's nothing in heaven or hell that could keep us apart. — Liliana Hart

To be Radchaai is to be civilised. — Ann Leckie

Do you still think Mianaai controls the Radchaai through brainwashing or threats of execution? Those are there, they exist, yes, but most Radchaai, like people most places I have been, do what they're supposed to because they believe it's the right thing to do. No one likes killing people."
Strigan made a sardonic noise "No one?"
"Not many," I amended. "Not enough to fill the Radch's warships". — Ann Leckie

One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it. — Blaise Pascal

Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want to add suffix (-ass), it's very suitable, isn't it? — Deyth Banger

Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading. — Emilie And Stephanie

Coaching is one thing and one thing only: It is creating an environment so the player has an opportunity to be successful That is your job as a coach. When you teach him to do that, get out of his way. — Chip Kelly

A person can want love all they want, but if they don't figure out who they are and learn to love their own self first, they'll never stay in love. — Marilyn Grey

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that. — Brooklyn Sudano

Lets drink to the hard working people
Lets drink to the salt of the earth — Mick Jagger

The extremity of her sensitivity
impressed a richly idle princely family,
of her discomfort, bothered as she had to be
by the absurd softness of the ample beddings,
not to mention the pillow piles aggravating
her much lamented acrophobic dis-ease.
[from the poem, Princess and the Pea] — Joseph Stanton

She was probably male, to judge from the angular mazelike patterns quilting her shirt. I wasn't entirely certain. It wouldn't have mattered, if I had been in Radch space. Radchaai don't care much about gender, and the language they speak - my own first language - doesn't mark gender in any way. — Ann Leckie

I've loved the whole process. From previews to rehearsals, I'm in the best company. I've done one West End show before this but the excitement here ... it's incredible. It's been a real education working on this, I don't feel worthy. The role is over the top, bold and ridiculous. — Rupert Grint