Safiya Quotes & Sayings

And do all Hell-Bards waddle like a duck, or is it just you? — Susan Dennard

Merik had seen potential trade for Nubrevna where there was none. He'd seen a navy that had "needed his leadership" when it hadn't. He'd seen a selfish domna in Safiya fon Hasstrel, a frustrating Threadwitch in Iseult det Midenzi, and then an inconsequential ship's boy in Cam - yet none of those presumptions had proved true. — Susan Dennard

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion. — El-P

Allow me to serve you, Safiya. We have spent too many years apart." "And I have spent too many hours between meals." A glare. "Give it to me now, Polly, or I shall castrate you with a fork. — Susan Dennard

Oh, I know!" Safi clapped her hands, delighted by her own genius. "I shall call you Un-empressed."
"Please," Vaness said coldly, "stop this immediately."
Safi absolutely did not. — Susan Dennard

God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean. — Thomas Watson

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions — Hillary Clinton

There are degrees of everything, which doesn't fit well into your true-or-false view of the world. — Susan Dennard

Nothing is wrong with Tom Brady. When you look at the New England Patriots, they are going to have to readjust how they evaluate talent ... You have to bring in some heavy hitters to protect Tom Brady at 37 years old and help him get the ball out of his hands. — Sterling Sharpe

If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples. — Francis Chan

I will give you a name," he said to it, "and I shall call you Sting. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I told you, Hell-Bard. Everyone lies. It's in the way we banter with our friends. It's in the mundane greetings we give passersby. It's in the most meaningless things we do every single moment of every single day. Hundreds upon thousands of tiny, inconsequential lies. — Susan Dennard

The generality of time, of a family of times, is derived from the fact that all these times are enveloped in a process of nature. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

As the Epic Film, Noah, debuts this weekend, those of you who have read Samrajni of Pemako know about the Noah subplot in the novel.
Yes, Safiya, the protagonist is distantly related to Noah... — Roy C. Marien

He came in looking so rough on the outside, but there was a real sadness in his eyes. I just wanted to comfort him. Then he looked at me and - I was on fire. I've never felt that way before. It doesn't matter that I don't even know him. — Ruth Cardello

Yes," Safi breathed, swaying into one of the men holding her up. She flashed a grin at him and said, "I'm Safiya fon Hasstrel, and I can do anything. — Susan Dennard

I'm a domna. I can smile at even the ugliest toad and flatter him on his perfectly placed warts. — Susan Dennard

After tonight, Safiya fon Hasstrel would be free. — Susan Dennard

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French spend hundreds of millions of dollars subsidizing film production, extend interest-free loans to designated filmmakers, and have placed quotas not only on imports but on television time. — Tyler Cowen

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge. — Richard Branson

[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free ... You sit at a bar with an editor at a show and you see 19 people come up and pitch ideas at them. If everybody writing the top 20 books all quit and demanded, 'Union now, union forever,' those 19 guys would be getting phone calls. There will never be a union. I think things are getting better - I bet things have never been so good - but there will never be a union. — Matt Fraction

If you wanted to, Safiya, you could bend and shape the world. — Susan Dennard