Stronghold Peasant Quotes & Sayings

Somewhere among them - those green and untested boys - lay much of the stock from which he would have to select a crew capable of going all the way. The trick would be to find which few of them had the potential for raw power, the nearly superhuman stamina, the indomitable willpower, and the intellectual capacity necessary to master the details of technique. And which of them, coupled improbably with all those other qualities, had the most important one: the ability to disregard his own ambitions, to throw his ego over the gunwales, to leave it swirling in the wake of his shell, and to pull, not just for himself, not just for glory, but for the other boys in the boat. — Daniel James Brown

Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history. — Marvin Minsky

thoughts can only be translated into actions by a trained mind. — Larry Law

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance. — Jim Horning

I've been having a dry spell and it's time to make it rain," I — Stephanie Brother

For the warrior, there is no "better" or "worse"; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path. — Paulo Coelho

When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones who actually do any work. — Corinne Maier

Everything barbarians do is nothing, no matter how loudly they insist it's something. — Dean Koontz

We warp space and time to twist the galaxy to our own design. — James Luceno

So that, whatever the stars were made for, they were not made to please our eyes. It is just the same in everything; nothing is made for man. — Thomas Hardy

This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it's just nothing. As soon as you put a border on it, it's gone. — Robert M. Pirsig

I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it. — Joy Williams

I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive. — Cassandra Clare

A self-disciplined person defines success by effectiveness. — Michael Andrews