Vianden Quotes & Sayings

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars. — Clifford Geertz

Father of Everything, Your presence fills all of Creation. Again today, your kingdom has come. Again today, I join my will to your will to make earth as heaven. Again today, you'll give us the bread we need for your daily work, and you'll show mercy to us just as much as we show mercy to others. Again today, as we face times of testing, you'll be with us in our trials. — Todd Wynward

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? — William Shakespeare

What would have happened if Caverna had been torn by a civil war, the two opposed leaders housed in a single body? — Frances Hardinge

In French culture, the best way of buying time or getting off the hook entirely in a thorny personal situation is to claim that it's complicated. The French did not invent love, but they did invent romance, so they've had more time than any other culture on earth to refine the nuances of its language. — Mark Zero

You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book! — Nancy Werlin

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship. — George MacDonald Fraser

We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly. — Thomas Cole

There is nothing like widespread poverty to boost a country's equality index. — Bob Tyrrell

I have lost the will to change — Breaking Benjamin

The scientific evidence to support their belief that inhaling other people's smoke causes cancer simply does not exist. — Christopher Booker

I was considered attractive in those days, some people even called me beautiful, though my skin was never good and it was this that I noticed when I looked in the mirror — Nicole Krauss