Xanders Guide Quotes & Sayings

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges. — Edmund Hillary

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it. — Storm Jameson

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit ... I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You were thinking about the hunky sheriff. I don't blame you. If I weren't a dragon, and a male one at that, I'd be drooling over him myself." He lifted his muzzle to look at her. "So what are you going to do about him?"
Baba sighed. "Probably something truly unwise."
"Excellent," Chudo-Yudo said. "About time. No one should be wise all the time. Not even a Baba. — Deborah Blake

In Britain, libel damages are small and people build them into the cost of doing business. In America, libel is very rare and much harder to prove, but the damages are enormous. — Graydon Carter

We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a community and a government. Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. We are able to do that because our culture, though certainly diminished, has sustained us since time inmemorial. This Cherokee culture is a well-kept secret. — Wilma Mankiller

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know. — Paul McCartney

People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film. — Zooey Deschanel

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy ... that makes you unkind. — Sue Miller

Estrella," he said has he pulled his mouth away and began kissing along my jawbone to my neck. "I have never wanted anyone, anything, quite like I want you."
... "I promise you, you can have me. I am yours," I said. — Karina Halle

I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27. — Olivier Theyskens