Worthil Quotes & Sayings

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. — Nick Harkaway

But this is not the faith that has given us religion. It would be rather remarkable if a positive attitude in the face of uncertainty led inevitably to ludicrous convictions about the divine origin of certain books, to bizarre cultural taboos, to the abject hatred of homosexuals, and to the diminished status of women. Adopt too positive an outlook, and the next thing you know architects and engineers may start flying planes into buildings. — Sam Harris

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to ... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain. — Whitey Ford

I think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, there's this time where anything is possible and the more things that you artistically and educationally have in your repertoire, the more you become a child of larger possibilities. — Mark Mothersbaugh

Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only
what is convenient for them. They have no other
way of living. — Tite Kubo

I'm an engineer by trade so I've always been interested in engineering and technology but also I've a strong interest in self build and off-grid properties and how it would affect us in terms of lifestyle. — Andy Griffiths

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink. — Epicurus

The truth is often angry. — Tarryn Fisher

The one on the left," Worthil said, "is a male, carrying the testes and penis. The middle one is equipped with a kind of reversible vagina, and ovaries. The vagina turns inside-out to implant the fertilised egg in the third sex, on the right, which has a womb. The one in the middle is the dominant sex."
Gurgeh had to think about this. "The what?" he said. — Iain M. Banks

People find hope, comfort, or confidence in making the sign of the cross or not walking under a ladder, just as you find hope and confidence in offering a pennant to the witch. Magic exists in the minds of those who believe in it, not in its actual influence on reality. — Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Is this the part where you suggest a highly inadvisable way of putting people in the mood to talk, in hopes that someone can shed light on who the"--Henry glanced at Vivvie--"hedgehog might be?"
"It's funny," I told Henry... "but the moment you said inadvisable, I had a thought."
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"The hedgehog?" Emilia asked, wrinkling her brow. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I started doing stand up when I was 19. Because I was underage at the time, at certain clubs I would be forced to wait outside until it was my time to go on stage. Then I would do my set, walk off, and be kicked out again. — Anna Akana