Sydni Battle Quotes & Sayings

I've heard that said about outlanders and enemies before, and I don't generally trust it. Just too bloody convenient, the quick and easy way to deal with difference. Oh, they're not like us, they're insane. It saves you having to think too much. — Richard K. Morgan

Nothing to it. You treat folk the way you'd want to be treated, and you can't go far wrong. — Joe Abercrombie

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward. — Otto Von Bismarck

In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and schools that should not be run for profit. — Bill Maher

Providing 'freemium' cloud storage to society is not a crime. What will Hollywood do when smartphones and tablets can wirelessly transfer a movie file within milliseconds? — Kim Dotcom

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination. — Lester Levenson

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul. — David McCord

Oh my son," sighed Ama. "I was talking to the shadows of the pomegranate trees. At least they will be here when we are all gone. — Tariq Ali

What I find really works for me is dry body brushing; it helps improve the circulation and exfoliates your skin. — Miranda Kerr

What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time. — Leo Tolstoy

I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him. — Charles Dickens

I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Life is life, and it is infinitely better than the alternative, or so we presume, for nobody returns to dispute it. Such is my motto. — Neil Gaiman

If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality. — George Orwell

Sometimes I think that the point of birdwatching is not the actual seeing of the birds, but the cultivation of patience. Of course, each time we set out, there's a certain amount of expectation we'll see something, maybe even a species we've never seen before, and that it will fill us with light. But even if we don't see anything remarkable - and sometimes that happens - we come home filled with light anyway. — Lynn Thomson