Veralyn Villanueva Quotes & Sayings

A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one. — Patricia Briggs

Neoptolemus: I am glad to see you and take you as a friend.
For one who knows how to show and accept kindness
will be a better friend than any possession. — Sophocles

I didn't have a solid opinion on the possibility of anyone's having psychic abilities or a fluency in reading auras, nor did I want to form an opinion about these things, to be one of those people with convictions about things they can't prove or disprove. — Catherine Lacey

All the doors were open, all the faces were frightened; one felt that Death was there. — Tom Reiss

He is here with me in this chamber of mine: I must not trifle. He leans over me, he puts his finger along the lines, I can see his pierced hand: I will read it as in his presence. I will read it, knowing that he is the substance of it, - that he is the proof of this book as well as the writer of it; the sum of this Scripture as well as the author of it. That is the way for true students to become wise! You will get at the soul of Scripture when you can keep Jesus with you while you are reading. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Just as if I was one of those true knights you love so well, yes. What do you think a knight is for, girl? You think it's all taking favours from ladies and looking fine in gold plate? Knights are for killing ... I killed my first man at twelve. I've lost count of how many I've killed since then. High lords with old names, fat rich men dressed in velvet, knights puffed up like bladders with their honours, yes, and women and children too - they're all meat, and I'm the butcher. Let them have their lands and their gods and their gold. Let them have their sers.' Sandor Clegane spat at her feet to show what he thought of that. 'So long as I have this,' he said, lifting the sword from her throat, 'there's no man on earth I need fear. — George R R Martin

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself. — E.P. Thompson

What surprises me is that I did not talk for One and a Half Year....when I was born....I can still feel the claustrophobia of those times and now vent out my thoughts all the time !! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness. — Ben Okri

I'm a believer that there are three fundamental ways that you can think about education. They're being a professor upfront, lecturing, telling what's inside your head, some case studies in which you are in discussion and also an action based learning. — Robert J. Dolan