Tekel Quotes & Sayings

Optimism / stung like grit in my swimsuit all the long ride home ... — Lesley Wheeler

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself. — Henry Fielding

Valentine whirled. Clary, lying half-conscious in the sand, her wrists and arms a screaming agony, stared
defiantly back. For a moment their eyes met - and he looked at her, really looked at her, and she
realized it was the first time her father had ever looked her in the face and seen her. The first and only
time.
"Clarissa," he said. "What have you done?"
Clary stretched out her hand, and with her finger she wrote in the sand at his feet. She didn't draw runes.
She drew words: the words he had said to her the first time he'd seen what she could do, when she'd
drawn the rune that had destroyed his ship.
MENE MENE TEKEL UPSHARIN. — Cassandra Clare

In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together. — Edwin Moses

Morality is a fiction used by a herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior ones..!! — Friedrich Nietzsche

You need a negative charge and a positive one to get something moving. We've got the negative; we're going to find the positive if it kills us. — Joan Bauer

If it's the last time, let me wrap my love around you. Let me lose you like I found you. — Agnetha Faltskog

When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The Infernal Devices began with a daydream of Jem and Tessa on Blackfriars Bridge, and I think it is fitting that it ends there too. — Cassandra Clare

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts. — Sebastian Faulks

Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book, isn't it?'
Just because I'm Jewish doesn't mean I've memorized the Old Testament.'
It's the Writing on the Wall. "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end; thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." It's a portent of doom
it means the end of an empire. — Cassandra Clare

One cannot write poems about trees when the forest is full of police. — Bertolt Brecht

Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway. — Suzanne Collins

If left to their own devices a child will achieve. — Aimee Mullins

It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over. — Jabari Parker

Sucking the fun out of life has always been an important component of politics. — P. J. O'Rourke