Strapped In Silk Quotes & Sayings

Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power. — Richard B. Garnett

When he came in sight of the prisoner he stopped short. The man sat with his hands bound behind him, securely strapped into a seat and guarded by two Yellow Squad troopers, a big fellow and a thin woman who made Mark think of a snake, all sinuous muscle and unblinking beady eyes. The prisoner looked a striking forty or so years of age, and wore a torn brown silk tunic and trousers. Loose strands of dark hair escaped from a gold ring on the back of his head and fell about his face. He did not struggle, but sat calmly, waiting, with a cold patience that quite matched the snake-woman's. Bharaputra. The Bharaputra, Baron Bharaputra, Vasa Luigi himself. The man hadn't changed a hair in the eight years since Mark had last glimpsed him. Vasa — Lois McMaster Bujold

I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so much to let go? — Emily Murdoch

We all carry secrets' said the fox. 'The more we ignore them, the heavier they become. — Claire Legrand

Nobody gets high or drunk while they on the clock. And nobody is to be strapped while they're on the grind, just in case the boys roll up," Butch said repeating the rules. "And what's the main rule?" Butch raised his hand and said, "Chief, the crew is to be clean at all times while on the clock." "Remember those rules and you'll last long in this business, — Silk White

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man. — Edgar Magnin

That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans. — Slash

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement. — Vernon Howard

Giving back is the right thing to do, whether it's donating clothing or even just a smile to someone who needs it. — Becky G

So, I guess that's what happens, when you fall in love with that perfect someone you just never want to fall out, because they treat you right, you know, like they give you kisses and they remind you of how beautiful you are, and how sweet you make them feel, and they do all kinds of things just to see you smile. — Abraham M. Alghanem

The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded. — John Olver

Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished — Esme Raji Codell

Lord! teach me the way my soul should walk. — Girolamo Savonarola

Through the doorway into an apartment that smelled like over-boiled cabbage and cat-box and unfiltered foreign cigarettes, and they were ushered through a tiny hallway past several closed doors to the sitting room at the far end of the corridor, and were seated on a huge old horsehair sofa, disturbing an elderly gray cat in the process, who stretched, stood up, and walked, stiffly, to a distant part of the sofa, where he lay down, warily stared at each of them in turn, then closed one eye and went back to sleep. — Neil Gaiman

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before. — Carly Rae Jepsen

Why should I have been surprised?
Hunters walk the forest
without a sound.
The hunter, strapped to his rifle,
the fox on his feet of silk,
the serpent on his empire of muscles
all move in a stillness,
hungry, careful, intent.
Just as the cancer
entered the forest of my body,
without a sound. — Mary Oliver