Gentian's Quotes

#1. We need an ally of Mydogg's or Gentian's pretending to be among the most loyal allies of the king,' Brigan said. 'Shouldn't be so hard, really. If I shot an arrow out the window I'd probably hit on.

Kristin Cashore

#2. And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.

William C. Bryant

#3. I will always believe our nation's best days lie ahead.

George W. Bush

#4. As long as you don't act upon it, no thought equates to madness.

Rosen Topuzov

#5. I will tell you who Jack is exactly when you finish this mission.

Cameron Jace

#6. It is not a question of whether you 'have what it takes,' but of whether you take the gifts you have - they are plenteous - and share them with all the world.

Neale Donald Walsch

#7. There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in our world is roughly equivalent to how many startups people should start.

Peter Thiel

#8. A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight.

Kay Ryan

#9. Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

Barton Gellman

#10. When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with it, as if the gentian yielded up its blueness, its very essence, to him. Everything he met had the newness of a creation just that moment come into being.

Frieda Lawrence

#11. My great beard. I am his queen, but I will always be his cub as well, and he will always guard me

George R R Martin

#12. Years later they are still feeling miserable, waiting for justice or magic to make their lives better.

Anonymous

#13. You have to stick within what I call your circle of competence. You have to know what you understand and what you don't understand. It's not terribly important how big the circle is. But it is terribly important that you know where the perimeter is.

Rolf Dobelli

#14. Is he ... " I look from Marcus, who walks slowly toward us, to Four, who inches slowly back, and everything comes together. Marcus had a son who joined Dauntless. His name was ... "Tobias.

Veronica Roth

#15. Sex as the vital antagonist to death - isn't the orgasm the primal spark of life? I know of many instances in which sexual feelings arise in order to neutralize fears of death.

Irvin D. Yalom

#16. I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.

Timothy Leary

#17. conscious mind had enough to deal with right now without worrying about what mischief my subconscious was up to.

C. Greenwood

#18. Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

LL Cool J

#20. Don't lie to a liar, and Maven is the grandest liar of all.

Victoria Aveyard

#21. Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.

Sarah Helen Whitman