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What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun.

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all.

It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

we who determine how quickly time passes.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Welcome to freakdom, Dave. It’ll be time to start a Web site soon, where you’ll type out everything in one huge paragraph.

Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.

He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.

I wasn’t sure anymore what made a good marriage. There had to be love, of course, but there were so many different kinds of love. And clearly, some love was more enduring than others.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.

Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.

believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it.

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.

Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.

The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

the way it always did.

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.

Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.

Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.

No man should live longer than his teeth.

We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.