Roial Quotes & Sayings

Go out in the early days of winter, after the first cold snap of the season. Find a pool of water with a sheet of ice across the top, still fresh and new and clear as glass. Near the shore the ice will hold you. Slide out farther. Farther. Eventually you'll find the place where the surface just barely bears your weight. There you will feel what I felt. The ice splinters under your feet. Look down and you can see the white cracks darting through the ice like mad, elaborate spiderwebs. It is perfectly silent, but you can feel the sudden sharp vibrations through the bottoms of your feet.
That is what happened when Denna smiled at me. — Patrick Rothfuss

The condition of my skin changes often, depending on the season or if I'm traveling a lot. — Joanne Froggatt

You're a mean old man, Your Grace."
"And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink. — Brandon Sanderson

Certainty is absence of infinity, infinity is presence of uncertainty. — Nanamoli Thera

Fear is a real enemy. What does it do?
It buys our coffin long before we are destined to die. — Sri Chinmoy

There's a lot of focus on kids like Macaulay Culkin or others who had bad situations at some point in their careers and not enough focus on the people who do good like Natalie Portman or Claire Danes. It's hard for children to have these full-time jobs with all this responsibility. — Tia Mowry

I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I've played up there many times. — Dick Dale

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it. — Malorie Blackman

He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare. — Washington Irving

The way we behave today is directly related to our belief in the future. — Bruce Van Horn

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis. — Ben Bernanke

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. — Kahlil Gibran

You don't pick a fight when you're drunk."
"I had to punch someone in the face, Mark."
"So you picked up four-hundred pound tattoo-guy?"
"He did have awesome tats didn't he?"
"You would know. You got to see them up close while they were in your face. — Sam Hunter

Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say. — Pope John Paul II

Good habits and intentional daily effort to turn excuses into solutions will help you become the person and entrepreneur that you want to be. — Farshad Asl

All types of societies are limited by economic factors. Nineteenth century civilization alone was economic in a different and distinctive sense, for it chose to base itself in a motive rarely acknowledged as valid in history of human societies, and certainly never before raised to the level of justification of action and behavior in everyday life, namely, gain. The self-regulating market system was uniquely derived from this principle. The mechanism which the motive gain set in motion was comparable in effectiveness only to the most violent outburst of religious fervor in history. Within a generation the whole human world was subjected to its undiluted influence. — Karl Polanyi