Iorek Byrnison Quotes

#1. Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must.
Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

Philip Pullman

#2. I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

Bill Gates

#3. A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

William J. Clinton

#4. The desert around the mine was covered with flowers, after a rare shower a few days earlier. The Vegas remember the songs they sang that night, including the one that Roberto wrote about "El Pato" Alex and his seventy-year-old father entering the mountain to search for him.

Hector Tobar

#5. Books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.

Lawrence Durrell

#6. To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Cus D'Amato

#7. The truth we make for ourselves is just the sum of what is in someone's interest, balanced by the power they hold.

Jo Nesbo

#8. My biggest regret is probably that it took me so long to find out what I want to do.

Hoodie Allen

#9. In one huge leather-gloved fist Jollyby held up a large, madly kicking hare by its ears.
'Son of a bitch,' Dauntless said. 'He caught it.'
Dauntless was a talking horse. She just didn't talk much.

Lev Grossman

#10. Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.

William Law

#11. When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.

Leonard Ravenhill

#12. Incredible, searing, glorious heat consumed her. Coherent thought eluded her. She could not think. She could not speak. With a helpless gasp of pleasure, she surrendered. Her arms twined around his neck, clutching him to her.

C.L. Wilson

#13. Silence sometimes yielded more than questions.

George R R Martin

#14. His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.

Eleanor Catton