Sylvari Elementalist Quotes & Sayings

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. — Katherine Anne Porter

Walking the deck with quick, side-lunging strides, Ahab commanded the t'gallant sails and royals to be set, and every stunsail spread. The best man in the ship must take the helm. Then, with every mast-head manned, the piled-up craft rolled down before the wind. The strange, upheaving, lifting tendency of the taffrail breeze filling the hollows of so many sails, made the buoyant, hovering deck to feel like air beneath the feet; while still she rushed along, as if two antagonistic influences were struggling in her - one to mount direct to heaven, the other to drive yawingly to some horizontal goal. And had you watched Ahab's face that night, you would have thought that in him also two different things were warring. — Herman Melville

An historian is a kind detective in search of the fact - remote or otherwise - that brings to a set of events apparently unconnected with each other, the link that unites them, their justification, their logic.

You cannot imagine what great delights this profession affords. It's as if, in every incunablum, consumed by worms and steeped in boredom, in every inarticulate scrawl, in every collection of forgotten chronicles, there presides a mischievous sprite, winking at you, who at the appropriate time confers on you your reward in the form of renewed wonder. — Jacques Yonnet

You are always a gardener. What grows - and how it grows - is up to you. — Jones Loflin

You never know what it's like to be someone else until you've lived what he's lived. — J.T. Geissinger

If there was one thing I understood about God, it was that he was not good, and if he was good, he was too powerless to deserve our attention. — Barbara Ehrenreich

I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison. — Rosie O'Donnell

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality. — Al Franken

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating. — Jeff Lindsay

But all I really learned is that money is powerful enough to bend the rules. Rhiannon:0, Dad:1. — Susane Colasanti

The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end. — FOUCAULT MICHEL

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died. — Bob Dylan

If Amber kept up her act forever, it would only be a matter of time before the broken pieces of her real self were too small to ever be put back together. I didn't know what happened to people once they were unfixable. I only hoped I never had to find out. — Cole Gibsen

Man: an irrational being who imagines himself to be a rational one. — Marty Rubin