Top 57 Kate Elliott Quotes
#2. But in life, every moment can be said to be critical; all is revealed and concealed, created, maintained, and destroyed in the great dance of time.
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#3. There are no chances." He favored her again with that unreadable look. "You succeed or you fail. Battles are not won by men who refuse to take risks." It
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#4. If one does not hope one will not find the unhoped for, since there is no trail leading to it, and no path. - HERACLEITUS OF EPHESUS
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#5. Because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.
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#6. I have to believe he will do as he promised. Yet the truth is that I trust him because of the way he snared my fingers in his. That is the worst reason of all to trust, but my bitter heart will not stop singing its recklessly giddy song.
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#7. The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.
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#8. A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.
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#9. How can it be men would put up with such an arrangement?'
'Why do some people demand it of women but not of men? It is just another way of doing things. As my father would have said, folk will have their customs according to their nature and their surroundings.
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#10. I'll take Prince Temnos to the Heart Tavern in the Warrens." "Yes, good, that's where Ro took me after I got him out of prison and where I intend to bring anyone from our household who has escaped. I'll meet you there." Without
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#11. No greater bond existed than love sealed by trust.
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#12. We dispute the arbitrary distribution of power and wealth, which is claimed as the natural order, but which is in fact not natural at all but rather artificially created and sustained by ancient privileges.
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#13. We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.
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#14. No, no! I'll carry the waste bucket. No one will ever suspect Prince Temnos would do that, will they?" His grin heartens me. We
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#15. That was why I kept stealing books out of the parlor and returning them. For the only books I ever took were my father's journals. Didn't I have some right to them, being that they, and I, were all that remained of him?
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#16. War was so simple, wasn't it? Much simpler than justice.
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#17. I am trapped, and for once in my life I see no path through these Rings. Four
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#18. Ilya, what do you want?" His smile vanished. When he contemplated his vision, his gaze narrowed until Tess could almost imagine it as a single beam, piercing to the heart of the universe, capable of vaporizing any object that stood in its path. "The world.
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#19. We don't have to accept the things we might change.
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#20. Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.
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#21. Hyacinth, we all have our limits. I can't save the world. I can't stop this war. Maybe, just maybe, I can communicate a few things through art.
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#22. It is not in Victory that you learn how strong you truly are.
- Stronghand
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#23. Now take Prince Temnos to Princess Berenise. We need him in our custody in order to succeed.
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#24. Narrative gets engineered until we start to believe it has always run that way.
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#25. But if the gods only cursed us, then we would hate them. And if they only blessed us, then - well, then we'd care nothing for their laws because we'd respect nothing but our own pleasure.
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#26. Naturalists claim that however much the female may be said to love the accoutrements of fashion and furnishings, it is the male who is driven to display himself.
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#27. The problem with meddling," said Charles under his breath, "is that for every problem you solve, you create two more.
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#28. The skin of frozen snow crunched satisfyingly beneath my boots as I smashed each step into the ground just as I planned to smash my foes.
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#29. Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?
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#30. If we prosper only through the suffering or death of another, then that is not prosperity.
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#31. But aren't all of us like a fine weaving? The pattern the world sees often hides the threads." Tess
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#32. I had not realized how much anger I held against my heart for all the people who use others as nothing more than tools to build a house for themselves, who wrap chains around others and then claim they have the right and even the obligation to do so.
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#33. Yana," he said gravely, "you must learn the basic lesson that those who have power will use it, and those who don't must learn to control those who do. You
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#34. It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.
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#35. We make ourselves into the net that we throw across the ocean
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#36. When you have a full and eager heart in you, you must not go to a man whose heart is empty and weak.
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#37. It is a sad truth, but one acknowledged by any person who can bother to read the law, that the inferior legal status of a woman in Europa means she is best protected by having a powerful family or, lacking that, by finding the strongest protector and marrying him.
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#38. Never let it be said that I could not talk my way out of any trouble that I could not punch.
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#39. The young who are male can never resist showing off their knowledge, no doubt because they possess so little.
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#40. Male or female, what did it matter, really, when the body yearned?
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#42. I think that when small-minded people envy and despise, then they will mock, thinking it their only weapon. I am not, I hope, a small-minded person. I will not mock you. I'll tell you straight to your face that I don't trust you and can't trust you...
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#43. Of course we all suffer,' Priya often told her. 'But if you cling to suffering or fight it then it will hold on like a rat. If you accept it's existence and the pain it causes you, then you can release it'.
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#44. All people are bound by ties and obligations, and the most binding ties of all are those between kin.
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#45. ...anyone can make a desert and call it peace...
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#46. Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves? ... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.
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#47. But you will die in any case, Ilyakoria. What good is everlasting fame to a man if he dies unloved?
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#48. You're not afraid to take risks." "Neither are you, Diana. Don't ever lose that quality. Once a person stops pushing and growing, she is as dead in the spirit as if she were dead in the flesh.
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#49. I meant that in politics there may be times when it's expedient to leave someone in power who's become incompetent, because in a web like that, there are ways to circumvent the damage that person might do. But
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#50. You learn to ride on the path and keep your eyes open so you can see what is there, not what you wish were there ... And then after all you might discover that what is there is what you wished for all along.
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#51. We'll smell of fish forever," I said. "That would be nice.
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#52. Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence."
"Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.
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#53. Sometimes, when you wished too hard for something, you paid a bitter price.
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#54. No one can fall in love at first sight. Love is built over years, not snapped into existence like a flame that can be as easily extinguished.
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#55. I believe that there is truth to be found inside every person, but that very few people find it because it is dark inside, and deeply hidden, and the trees grow thickly.
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#56. They say that your eyes contain fire, that your face fills with light.
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#57. There's little enough joy, and far too much pain, in a world like this not to appreciate the beauty that comes your way. He
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