Unstoppering Quotes & Sayings

Did I hear your correctly, my dear?" Ahan asked with a shaky voice. "You're going to go into Elantris?"
"Yes." Sarene said.
"I need something to drink," Ahan decided, unstoppering his wine flask. — Brandon Sanderson

Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions. — Umar

As long as you leave to others the responsibility to make you happy, you are going to always be miserable, because that is actually your job — Linda Alfiori

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has. — Norman Jewison

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers. — Koren Zailckas

Never mistake motion for progress. — Mark Twain

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement. — Roberto Bolano

Often truly authoritative leadership falls on someone who years earlier dedicated themselves to practice the discipline of seeking first the kingdom of God. Then, as that person matures, God confers a leadership role, and the Spirit of God goes to work throuh him. — J. Oswald Sanders

Yellow joy was radiating from her. When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch. — Sarah Addison Allen

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free. — Charles R. Swindoll

It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom," said the Voice ...
The whole distinction between things accidental and things designed, like the distinction between fact and myth, was purely terrestrial. The pattern is so large that within the little frame of earthly experience there appear pieces of it between which we can see no connection, and other pieces between which we can. Hence we rightly, for our sue, distinguish the accidental from the essential. But step outside that frame and the distinction drops down into the void, fluttering useless wings. He had been forced out of the frame, caught up into the larger pattern ... "My name also is Ransom," said the Voice. — C.S. Lewis

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward. — Joseph Campbell

Sherlock Holmes is a literary figment. He lives in Neverland, so he always gets to be right. But if he tried to ply his trade as a "consulting detective" in the real world, he would be a dangerously incompetent boob - more like The Pink Panther's Inspector Clouseau than the genius who lives with his friend Watson at 221b Baker Street. — Jonathan Gottschall

I'd like to take a long walk, to the edge of something. — Arthur K. Flam