Smaug 2013 Quotes & Sayings

At this point the judge took over the questioning. "Didn't lynchings happen in Mississippi?" he asked. Yes, admitted the rating committee member, but it was all so long ago, why dwell on it now? "It is a history book, isn't it?" asked the judge. — James W. Loewen

The 'Dance of Love' is much more of a dialogue, one takes the lead and the other follows. One dictates a step and the other carries it out. One determines the direction, the other determines the distance travelled in a given figure. One sets the pace, the other reveals the grace. One understands the language of the other and knows what is coming next. The one leading leads with love and respect; never seeing the follower as being weak or inferior. And in the same manner, the one following follows with Trust and Submission; never feeling too big to be led or scared to jump. There is a blind assurance that someone is there to catch. — Olaotan Fawehinmi

She's a dead loss. Has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She's so insipid, she's almost invisible. — Melina Marchetta

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed. — John Irving

To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle — Yuu Watase

The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives. — Jurgen Moltmann

Being an example of a strong woman is the best way to love your daughter. — Jewel E. Ann

I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share. — Gary Kovacs

It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary. — Keri Arthur

If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. — Tamara Ireland Stone

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. — A.J. Liebling

Check out the magic crap." He shot me a look. "Oh, is that what we're supposed to be doing? Because I've just been drawing hearts and our initials in the dirt. — Rachel Hawkins

Those who have been intoxicated with power ... can never willingly abandon it. — Edmund Burke

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something. — Andrew Wyeth

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away? — Pablo Neruda