Spearfinger Story Quotes & Sayings

At some point, you realize you can't provide a perfectly monolithic description of a foreign culture's future any more than you can provide a monolithic description of your own hometown's future. Your choices about what to emphasize and what to leave out make all the difference, and ultimately, your fingerprints and biases and viewpoints are going to be all over the story. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Christians believe that God came amongst us as a man, do they not? Yet the Muselmen say he was only a prophet, and that God has no name ... We fight and kill each other so readily, yet if I had been born in the East, would I not believe the stories they believe, and if they had been born here, would they not be Christians? — David Clement-Davies

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink — Saint Augustine

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity. — Ezra Taft Benson

Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of being something or somebody in particular.Of all the affections the love of oneself comes first. Light and love are impersonal.When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections of the present. They disappear very quickly. You should read more old books. The classics. Goethe. What is merely new is the most transitory of all things. It is beautiful today, and tomorrow merely ludicrous. — Franz Kafka

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. — John The Apostle

If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms — Jenny Han

He rises like a storybook hero out of the darkness - of course, his armor is of leather and ink, rather than chain mail. — Colleen Masters

Dork," I chastised affectionately. But his cheesy exclamation was something I was okay with. I smiled up at him. His hazels danced with mischief. "Okay," I agreed.

The mischief turned to triumph.

Damn those magic eyes! — Sarah Brocious

Wanting to quit is a sign of success because it means you have something to quit; but don't quit. — Matthew Barnett