Showpieces Quotes & Sayings

She had her eyes on one ship in particular, had been watching, coveting, all day. It was a gorgeous vessel, its hull and masts carved from dark wood and trimmed in silver, its sails shifting from midnight blue to black, depending on the light. A name ran along its hull - Saren Noche - and she would later learn that it meant Night Spire. For now she only knew that she wanted it. But she couldn't simply storm a fully manned craft and claim it as her own. She was good, but she wasn't that good. And then there was the grim fact that Lila didn't technically know how to sail. — V.E Schwab

It was peace, deeper and broader than the starfields around him. It was belonging. It was freedom. Kneeling before the one who could only be the Ancient had not been the cost of freedom, but the means. For a long time he laughed and wept and laughed again, released. — Jonathan Renshaw

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a specific approach to computer support here. It's all very time sensitive and report driven. We want what we need when we need it but couldn't care less how that happens. — Frederick Barrows

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology ... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner. — Robert Darnton

To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel. — Henry Ward Beecher

May the angels protect you, and sadness forget you. — Madonna Ciccone

In some ways, I decided, women are showpieces in American society, too. — Malala Yousafzai

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.' — Walter Kirn