Arcanum Quotes

#1. I'm to be whipped and admitted to the Arcanum'
He looked at be curiously,trying to see if I was making a joke,
I'm sorry? Congratulations?Do I buy you a bandage or a bear?

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. Some of my Arcanum bunkmates taught me a card game called dogs-breath. I returned the favor by giving an impromptu lesson in psychology, probability, and manual dexterity. I won almost two whole talents before they stopped inviting me back to their games.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. It was easy to understand why. Most students attend the University for several terms before being admitted to the Arcanum. Everyone here had to work their way up through the ranks the hard way. I hadn't.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.

H.L. Mencken

#5. . . . Mrs. Arcanum considered foreign parts only marginally less unspeakable than private parts. . .

Terry Pratchett

#6. Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow.

Jack Parsons

#7. It was so dark, it was almost black and it melted on her tongue into an ancient flavor of seed pod, earth, shade, and sunlight, its bitterness casting just a shadow of sweet. It tasted ... fine, so subtle and strange it made her feel like a novitiate into some arcanum of spice.

Laini Taylor

#8. We can't do anything but snap at each other," I said. "The masters made sure of that. Anything too extreme would get us expelled for Conduct Unbecoming a Member of the Arcanum. Why do you think I haven't made his life a hell?"
"You're lazy?" Wil suggested.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. New York City is the capital for Baseball, not just for the pros, but also for the kids throughout the city, as well. No matter who you root for, the Borough Cup is going to make every kid and community that participates a winner.

Mark Teixeira

#10. You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God ... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

Charles Stanley

#11. The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

Voltaire

#12. Yes, according to the way he wrote that sentence, he turned invisible for one line. No, he won't let me change it.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. I regard myself as a woman who has seen much of life.

Belle Starr

#14. patience is simply a way of putting the other person first. Patience is an expression of submission. Your

Andy Stanley

#15. Just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you are one.

Unknown Author 516

#16. When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

Laozi

#17. Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#18. Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to!

Wes Craven