Vaalian Quotes & Sayings

I mean, it was hard on them. They were turning their backs on everything they'd ever known, because they'd decided there was something that mattered more than doing what they'd been taught to do. Hell, what they'd been raised to do. This wasn't a choice they made on a whim. This was everything to them. — Seanan McGuire

The State has a superfluity of testicles, Peersa said with no particular emphasis. — Larry Niven

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Have you ever noticed that just before something big happens in life, there is a crisis of some sort? — Tobin Wilson

By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man — Immanuel Kant

We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Let's take it slow because I'd like each moment we share to be etched in my memory. And I'd like these memories to make me smile wistfully someday. Let's take it slow because I'm keeping a journal of our journey, and someday I'll turn it into a book. I'd like our story to be rich in detail, and full of laughter and intriguing conversations. Let's take it slow because all my life, I've always rushed into so many things, and they were all mistakes - I'd like you to be one of those things I'm going to do right. You deserve that much. — Nessie Q.

Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding, — J. Christopher Stevens

Things fell into place and there was an opportunity for fresh leadership. And - I was - I was successful. — Justin Trudeau

Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another. — Jules Henry

Believe me, my boy, women don't love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women. — Irene Nemirovsky

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time. — Judith Weir

I grew up as a Roy Rogers fan, of course. — Phil Everly

Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out." Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the vertebrae. It left me debilitated. In hindsight, I blamed myself more than the surgeons. I had pressed them for a solution when in fact none was apparent because the cause of the pain was obscure. — Jerome Groopman

People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying. — Haruki Murakami