Veila Quotes & Sayings

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The worm does not his work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame. — Charles Dickens

Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn't look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I'd still be in Savannah. — Clarence Thomas

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change. — Margery Allingham

Where's the fun in fucking if the fucker can't slam the fuckee into a wall or two? — Lauren Hammond

Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line. — Ingrid Newkirk

I shouldn't have to do the foot-soldier work, Tahiri. Be my eyes and ears. I'd hate to have to use ch'hala trees. You're smarter than a tree
aren't you?
Darth Caedus to Tahiri Veila — Karen Traviss

You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we'll look back at the first decade of the 21st century when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we'd crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once? — Thomas Friedman

We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life. — Richard Rohr

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else. — Alfonso Ribeiro

Shoes were invented by the Sith to keep our delicate toes in anguish and misery, I'm sure of it."
-Tahiri Veila (Edge of Victory: Conquest) — Greg Keyes

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? — Alan Watts

They say a man's inspiration is visual, but for a woman, it's the narrative.
Abandon both the narrative and the visual. Close your eyes, measure your breath.
Dead weight is sloughed off, dust swept away, forms dissolve into one atmosphere.
The rib cage opens, the lungs fill, the breast rises.
Waves sweep up the body on their swell, rocking it rhythmically.
Feet planted, the back arches, the pelvis reaches forward.
Oxygen kindles a flame, sprawling through the belly, and gathering in a warm blaze.
The hand reaches to meet the sensation.
Calligraphy spills from the inkwell.
Open your eyes, sharpen your focus, and exclaim:
There are no separations. — Craig Thompson

I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I don't trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesn't believe in the power of mystery. — Brene Brown