Shimba Full Quotes & Sayings

'I thought you were an atheist,' Sjurd commented to hide the clench of his gut. He couldn't be stuck here while his country burned.
'Nobody's an atheist in a storm,' Celyn said absently, still frowning at the sky. — Amy Rae Durreson

We aren't really motivated by abstract ideas or pushed by rules and duties. Instead some panoramic tableau of what looks like flourishing has an alluring power that attracts — James K.A. Smith

The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain. — Edward William Lane

It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process. — Brad Paisley

I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice? — Ahdaf Soueif

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him."
-from "By diverse means we arrive at the same end — Michel De Montaigne

Dorian could only stare at her. This was different from the feral creature she'd become the night Nehemia had died. What she was right now, the edge on which she was balancing ... Wyrd help them all.
But than Chaol was at her chair, grasping her elbow. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"
Celaena looked up at him and smiled sweetly. "Your job, apparently." She shook off his grip with a thrash, then got up from her seat, stalking around the table. — Sarah J. Maas

Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl Of Orrery

Morality is not respectability. — George Bernard Shaw

My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot. — Moon Bloodgood

For a book to be a good one a reader must have a connection with the characters and identify with them and have the story hold their attention and want more — Brenda Kay Winters