Sasanian Empire Quotes & Sayings

Consider, too, the matter of display, the claims of "specialness" implicit in attack by witchcraft. Such claims were most vividly dramatized in full-blown "fits," but, in a lesser measure, they may be imputed to all self-described victims: "The forces of evil have chosen me as their target. And you - the standers-by - must attend to me in my hour of affliction." This — John Putnam Demos

I'll take a shower."
"Want company?"
"Enough, Blake." Ayden stood and backhanded the big guy's chest.
"Just trying to do my Hexy Knight duty. How about we carpool tomorrow, babe? You could sit on my lap. I make a great seat belt."
"Shut up, Blake," Ayden and I said in unison. — A&E Kirk

Seattle was a rabid film town in the '70s and '80s because it rained so much. — John Requa

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls? — Honore De Balzac

Arms and laws do not flourish together. — Julius Caesar

There was always an outrageousness to our response to minor events. Flamboyance and exaggeration were the tail feathers, the jaunty plumage that stretched and flared whenever a Wingo found himself eclipsed in the lampshine of a hostile world. As a family, we were instinctive, not thoughtful. We could never outsmart our adversaries but we could always surprise them with the imaginativeness of our reactions. We functioned best as connoisseurs of hazard and endangerment. We were not truly happy unless we were engaged in our own private war with the rest of the world. Even in my sister's poems, one could always feel the tension of approaching risk. Her poems all sounded as though she had composed them of thin ice and falling rock. They possessed movement, weight, dazzle and craft. Her poetry moved through streams of time, wild and rambunctious, like an old man entering the boundary waters of the Savannah River, planning to water-ski forty miles to prove he was still a man. — Pat Conroy

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare. — T. S. Eliot

Holding my camera, freezing, and a mile from flames that could burn me alive, I'd finally found what I didn't know I was looking for. — Jamie McGuire

Morning, sweetheart, — J. Lynn

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me. — Matthew Lewis

If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are. — Sam Killermann

I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values. — Norbert Leo Butz

You must make your dream a priority in order for it to become your life — Bob Proctor

Study the bible thoroughly before a pseudo-holy criminal mislead you! — Michael Bassey Johnson