Magic Rises Quotes

#1. If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire.

Philippe Petit

#2. This is the miracle of all miracles - when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic.

Seth Adam Smith

#3. Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

William Hazlitt

#4. You mustn't let your emotions get the better of you. There is a great deal to be angry about, but anger doesn't change things.

Gemma Malley

#5. Often when we hear people speak about meditation, we hear about wisdom, we hear about knowledge. But what, actually, is the effect, what's the use, of wisdom or knowledge? Understanding. When you understand mind, you're not at its mercy. When you don't understand, you're lost in the midst of it.

Stephen Levine

#6. When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. There is a sort of magic in striking a match and lighting a cigarette, the way the match flares and the tobacco singes, the way the smoke rises in curls, that feeling of peace as the nicotine hits the back of the throat. I will give up smoking when they invent something better than smoking.

Chloe Thurlow

#8. They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped.

Denis Johnson

#9. And he wrote, When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you.

L.M. Montgomery

#10. Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#11. When it's cold & dark at night, and we're alone together, I long to take you in my arms, and cuddle you forever.

Giles Andreae

#12. Will you stop meddling in my love life?" I growled.
"I'm not meddling. I'm offering commentary.

Ilona Andrews