Scottish Gaelic War Quotes & Sayings

I nodded, chewing my own syrup-soaked bite. "But surely that's not all there is to it. I mean, really? A big picnic? That's Avari's master plan? That makes him sound about as dangerous as Yogi Bear."
Tod shrugged. "Yeah. If Yogi were a soul-sucking, body-stealing, boyfriend-snatching, damned-soul-torturing evil demon from another world. Besides, what else could he be planning? — Rachel Vincent

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence; - true poetry strikes at the soul. — Egerton Brydges

When it got to be time to design the week - a period of time, unlike the day, month, and year, with no intrinsic astronomical significance - it was assigned seven days, each named after one of the seven anomalous lights in the night sky. We can readily make out the remnants of this convention. In English, Saturday is Saturn's day. Sunday and Mo[o]nday are clear enough. Tuesday through Friday are named after the gods of the Saxon and kindred Teutonic invaders of Celtic/Roman Britain: Wednesday, for example, is Odin's (or Wodin's) day, which would be more apparent if we pronounced it as it's spelled, "Wedn's Day"; Thursday is Thor's day; Friday is the day of Freya, goddess of love. The last day of the week stayed Roman, the rest of it became German. — Carl Sagan

The truth is like a septic tank and the smell will eventually get out no matter how hard we tighten down the hatch. — George Sorbane

In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it. — Yukio Mishima

One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session. — Jackie Earle Haley

To be one of a pair of bodies that knew that melting fusion. To reach and find. To be and reached for and found. To belong to a mutual certainty. To wake up holding hands. — Laini Taylor

Hope is often just a consoling thought, our naive disclaimer, retracting the possibility of a certain reality that we don't have the power to change. — Kavita Kane

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals. — Washington Irving

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered. — Vladimir I. Vernadsky