Reverntial Quotes & Sayings

We must wait," she said. "They are involved in important buisness."
Her tone was serious, almost reverntial. The two of them stopped, some five meters from the group of me. They were all leaning forward, staring intently at an upright rock placed in the middle of the circle. Will thought they must be praying, although no words were being said.
Then, as one, they all slumped back with a roar of disappointment.
"It flew away!" said one figure, and Will recognized the voice. It was the man who had rescued him. "Almost to the top and it flew away!"
e lookd questioningly to Cieliema and she rolled her eyes at him. "Grown men gambling on two flies crawling up a stone."
"Gambling?" he said. "I thought they were praying.
She raised an eyebrow. "To them, it's much the same thing. — John Flanagan

The language should be accorded just the same dignity and respect as those other standards that science was then also defining. — Simon Winchester

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality. — Roger Tory Peterson

Rules are rules was stuffed into him from the crib like he was a Thanksgiving turkey. — James Marshall Smith

I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or a writer. Because what the hell do I do when I'm not working? Mope? — Hannibal Buress

It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth
'Tis then we get the right good from a book. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians. — Scott Lynch

I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality, therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person. — Napoleon Hill

I don't like psychiatrists," Alecto told her. "Not because they don't think I'm real, but because they have no idea what they're doing. — Rebecca McNutt

The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more. — Gary Cole

When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated. — Bryant McGill

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living. — William Sloane Coffin

But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house.
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A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody. — Toni Morrison

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants. — Herman Boerhaave