Stoyanka Mutafovas Quotes & Sayings

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected . — Sun Tzu

Generally, we admire the thing we are not. — Stephen Fry

Your self-image is a governor of sorts. It will never let you act in a way that is inconsistent with it. — Robin S. Sharma

The careful observance of discipline is the mark of the artiste. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do. — Walter Abish

Just so you know,' I explained, remembering my own earlier arrogance, 'if you've ever owned a cat and therefore think you know how to handle a puma, you don't. It would be like playing with sharks because you once owned a goldfish. — Peter Allison

Ah. Morrigan, a voice said behind me. I jumped and spun around. Jesus. She must have been wearing super-quiet librarian shoes. — Eileen Cook

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood. — Nick Harkaway

Look at me, kitten." I did and felt safe. Deacon wouldn't let anything happen to me. "Who do you see?" he asked. "My master." "I have you, darling." He gripped my chin tightly. "I have you. — C.D. Reiss