Magi Quotes

#1. I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.

Michael Leunig

#2. Some of the highlanders considered the true Christmas to be on January fourteenth. Old Christmas, they called it, believing it was the day the magi visited the Christ child.

Ron Rash

#3. The Magi bring treasures and gifts fitting for a king. Hearts that are seeking, that are open will be overjoyed at finding, will fall down and worship. Deceptive and scheming minds will be frustrated, left out of the divine communication. Worship leaves us more open and receptive to God,

Ron Oltmanns

#4. The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they see enclosed in a tiny body the One whom the entire world cannot contain.

Peter Chrysologus

#5. What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born.

James Russell Lowell

#6. (I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. ("The Adoration of The Magi")

W.B.Yeats

#7. Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi heard the answer: "In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by the prophet" ... enlightened by these words, they chose to press forward to the very end.

Pope Benedict XVI

#8. The skies make no special dispensation for Magi, boy, they piss on everyone the same.

Joe Abercrombie

#9. My friends are my enimies, my magi, my gods, my life...

Mykyta Isagulov

#10. A rabble-rouser from the UN high commission for refugees ... the former magi who resigned in protest against purification ... plus a girl ... and a dog.

Mamoru Oshii

#11. Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.

Cameron Mathison

#12. Yes. The elven magi are very old, but not old enough to remember that all of this has happened before."
Parmida frowned. "Just how old are you?"
"I am older than a thousand of your suns," the unicorn answered.
". . . and that means?

Ash Gray

#13. This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.

Isaac Asimov

#14. I might not have any magic available to me, but that didn't make me any less of a wizard, one of the magi, the wise. That's the true power of a wizard.

Jim Butcher

#15. In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore the serpent on their headgear and the serpent was the symbol of the Magi of Ireland, the Naddreds, or Druids.

Michael Tsarion

#16. The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

Aleister Crowley

#17. Someone who loved night arrivals and dark departures, for the hell, the fun, the death of it?

Ray Bradbury

#18. I have a problem with heights in general - and climbing!

Jamie Bell

#19. Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered" she went on with a sudden serious sweetness "but nobody could ever count my love for you".

O. Henry

#20. Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone

Shinobu Ohtaka

#21. I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.

Jojo Moyes

#22. Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Lewis Carroll

#23. I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Paul Auster

#24. We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death.

T. S. Eliot

#25. Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Carl Hiaasen

#26. There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

O. Henry

#27. Destiny isn't something you make as you're told. By overcoming difficulties, life and this whole world can advance forward. That's what destiny is for. A world that has lost the power to advance forward, will be destroyed - Aladdin

Shinobu Ohtaka

#28. Not feeling bad for others means having no regrets.

Magica Quartet

#29. Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

David Hackworth

#30. What do you do,' said Jean, 'with, ah, "ungifted" children when you have them?'
'Cherish them and raise them, you imbecile. Most of them end up working for us, in Karthain and elsewhere. What did you think we'd do, burn them on a pyre?'
'Forget I asked

Scott Lynch

#31. All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

Alfred Adler

#32. IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn't face much competition.

Steve Jurvetson

#33. You have to know what you want to get it.

Gertrude Stein

#34. Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do ... is erase the ones you hate. - Hakuryuu

Shinobu Ohtaka

#35. As an ex-footballer, sometimes surfer and wannabe rock star, Quentin had been fucked by cheerleaders, surfer girls and groupies, but he had never, ever been fucked like that.

Ros Baxter

#36. I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin

Shinobu Ohtaka