Kysin Quotes

#1. Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do."
"Oh," said Harry.
"You may, if you wish, unhorse him first," Mathin added as an afterthought.
"Thanks," said Harry.

Robin McKinley

#2. Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

William James

#3. The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

#4. Every day, you are to offer your life to God for His service. You do not serve Him in your spare time or with your leftover resources. The way you live your life for God is your offering to Him.

Richard Blackaby

#5. Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. It's like touching you in your unmentionables," Maleficarum said. "We never could, m'lady, not ever. Mr. Dante wouldn't like it.

Stacia Kane

#7. To be with another scientist and make a discovery and share that with a global audience, or working with bear biologists in Alaska, by helicopter - [it's] really what I've given my whole life to. And I get to do that just about every week.

Jeff Corwin

#8. In a world of well-defined problems, directors are required to exercise influence over volatility, manage uncertainty, simplify complexity, and resolve ambiguity in the 21st-century digital environment.

Pearl Zhu

#9. passport indicates he lived there before coming to the United States." "I

Michael Connelly

#10. Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#11. Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction and events without reason. Without a purpose life is trivial, petty, and pointless.

Rick Warren

#12. Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a bunch of stupid toys!"
"What were you expecting?"
"Real estate!

Charles M. Schulz

#13. Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.

Nancy Kress