The Devouring Trilogy Quotes & Sayings

I defend myself by improving myself. — Sidney Poitier

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will. — George Bernard Shaw

Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?" Her eyes welled. "Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh Marcus, you can't carve God in stone. You can't limit him to a temple. You can't imprison him on a mountaintop. Heaven is his throne; earth, his footstool. Everything you see is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails. — Francine Rivers

You went through hell and lived. That leaves marks — Simon Holt

Your heart gives you your power, Regina. Follow it, fight with it, and you cannot be defeated — Simon Holt

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been. — Richard Jefferies

Liberia got Petroleum (Oil): The problem of development lies in good leadership and great communication. Some of our leaders want to turn the country's oil company into the Gaddafi regime of Libya that they could rule Liberia and their sons and grand kids can also rule as well. It's a form of oppression. The Liberian people want a leader, not an oppressor or an installed puppet. Someone who will put the country and its peoples' interest first. Not a corrupt politician who's out to rip the country apart, in the name of enriching their families. — Henry Johnson Jr

patriarch over all of the land's inhabitants. Hillel's appointment ushers in an exciting period of creativity in developing the Oral Law, alongside the preservation of ancient traditions. Together, these two ideals serve as Hillel's guiding light: he expounds based on the rules of logic and simultaneously apprentices under the — Binyamin Lau

Freshman year. We made it. And with only one body possession and one accidental death to our names — Simon Holt

things like how to tell the age of a tree, the dances of the moon and tides, and the names of the clouds-like cumulonimbus and nimbosttratus-that sounded lie magic spells on his tongue. — Michelle Cuevas

You can shit in one hand and wish in another and see which one gets full faster. Or ... you can just take my word for it. — C.V. Hunt

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction. — Anson Mount