Urswyck Quotes & Sayings

It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it? — Soren Kierkegaard

Gold," said Jaime. "You do like gold?" Urswyck studied him through reddened eyes. "It has its uses, I do confess. — George R R Martin

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men. — H.L. Mencken

I think I am ready for that. I think I am ready to be met. — Anne Enright

When he held a candle across the threshold, the black swallowed the fire completely. When he tried to step across it, he felt nothing beneath his foot. Sometimes he heard rain, a bird-cry, wind soughing through tall trees; mostly he was aware only of an intimation of vastness, silence, as though he stood at the edge of a world.
He saw nothing. So he let the charcoal imagine what might lie on the other side of the door. — Patricia A. McKillip

So start saying F**k It to pain. When you respond to pain, you are only acting out a conditioned response. And all conditioned responses are reversible. When you encounter any pain, counter your immediate response by just saying F**k It. — John C. Parkin

The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
[Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.] — Juvenal

Hundreds of scientists from around the world are gathering in Washington, D.C. for what some say could be a historic meeting. They are attending an international summit to debate one of the most controversial subjects in modern science , editing human DNA. — Linda Wertheimer

I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised. — Mario Cuomo

But that is not because these principles are traditional; it is because they are biblical. There is certainly an arrogant, hide-bound type of traditionalism, unthinking and uncritical, which is carnal and devilish. But there is also a respectful willingness to take help from the Church's past in order to understand the Bible in the present; and such traditionalism is spiritual and Christian. — J.I. Packer

I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street. — Georgie Fame