Alethi Quotes

#1. But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety, and now the Alethi elite danced with abandon.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. Leadership is rarely about what we want, son. I think too few among the Alethi elite realize that fact.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. If there was one thing the Alethi court enjoyed more than wine, it was gossip.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is about discomfort and making myself as uncomfortable as the men feel, or putting myself in a situation where I'm revealing my loneliness as much as they're revealing theirs.

Laurel Nakadate

#5. I embrace emerging experience.
I participate in discovery.
I am a butterfly.
I am not a butterfly collector.
I want the experience of the butterfly.

William Stafford

#6. What leader has no lessons to learn from his followers?

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#7. Rejection is inevitable. The goal is to minimize it.

Keith Grafman

#8. Listen to me instead of your financial manager: It's okay to spend money, to save it, to give it away, to worry over it. It's just money. Your only enemy in life is time. Do be miser with time: hoard it, treasure it, don't squander a single minute of it.

Cassandra King

#9. And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#10. He'd forgotten about the beautiful things in life. Soft things. Gentle things. Sights and sounds. Tastes and touches. She was all of them wrapped up in one sweet package.

Sarah Castille