Sachems Quotes & Sayings

Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me. — David Prowse

Anything really is possible in musical theater. — Michelle Knudsen

Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? ... He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage ... — Robert Olmstead

Everything I did for him I did for me, too, because it made me happy to see him happy. That's not obsession, you dickhead, it's love." He's — Adam Silvera

Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people. — Chief Seattle

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is. — Plutarch

You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input. — Joe Biden

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb? — Friedrich Nietzsche

But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends. — Anthony Doerr

That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape. — Salman Rushdie

We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should be wary about tipping the scales too far. The community of selves shouldn't be a democracy, but it shouldn't be a dictatorship, either. — Paul Bloom

The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America. — John Adams

Jace you already behave as if you've never heard the word 'fear.' I fail to see how we're going to be able to tell the difference if it does work on you." (Luke talking about the rune Clary just created)
Alec stifled what sounded like a laugh. Jace simply smiled a tight unfriendly smile. "I've heard the word 'fear,'" he said. "I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me."
"Exactly the problem," said Luke.
-pg.283-284- — Cassandra Clare

Maybe in death you'll understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against all that you swear to protect. — Charles Lee

Journalism is an enemy of rationality. What makes news? The unusual and the spectacular, which by their nature distort reality and pervert our decisions. You read headlines like 15 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH IN WYOMING. You don't read headlines like ANOTHER 2,000 DIED OF HEART DISEASE YESTERDAY. This leads to the Availability Fallacy. Our lazy mind gloms on to the most vivid, emotional examples. When we think of danger, we think of hideous plane crashes or acts of terrorism, even though boring old cars kill eighty-four times more people. — A. J. Jacobs

You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it. — Mao Zedong