Stalemated August Quotes & Sayings

Sara wasn't spooked by death, never had been. Dead bodies were reassuring once you got used to them. The body of her mother for instance--so unlike her mother in every way that all she felt about it was curiosity. Flesh became rubber. It wasn't just lifeless--a word that suggests limp or inanimate. It was beyond lifeless. To understand the power of the soul you have to see its absence. Bodies didn't bother her any more than a plant would. — Nadine Doolittle

George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again. — Walt Disney Company

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo. — J.K. Rowling

Kaji's ways," Abban said. "Interpreted by corrupt Damaji to their own ends over the centuries. — Peter V. Brett

There was a way I could rebel that was not only free of charge, but...all I had to was: nothing. — Tina Horn

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end. — Neal Schon

The main one is that these apparel jobs are a very important means for young women in these countries to gain autonomy. The other big lesson is that it can't be just about activism. This is most clear to me in the case of China, where we do not have freedom of the press. If the press is free and can report on what's happening, then change happens. — Pietra Rivoli

I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Just because you've done something frightening once doesn't mean it's suddenly not scary anymore. — Noelle Hancock

The intensity with which he stared at me bordered on obscene. — C.J. Roberts

Persistence is the most traveled path to success. — Bryant McGill

Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision. — Frederick Lenz

22When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23But if there is harm, [49] then you shall pay life for life, 24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. — Anonymous

At their root, the key and the Confessor both authenticate the truth. The Confessor's power would force the subject to reveal the truth, while all of the coded alignments of the key involve proofing it against reality. Reality is truth. Therefore, both the Confessor and the key need the same formulas to initiate their ultimate function. — Terry Goodkind

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it. — Henry Ward Beecher