Top 88 Margaret Weis Quotes
#1. And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time-as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis," the mage whispered, "I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.
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#2. For only the humans were endowed with the lust for power so strong that the raw passion of their nature could be easily corrupted.
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#3. Now her smile was like the bleakness of the sun in a cold winter sky. It gave light but no warmth, perhaps because there was no matching warmth in her eyes.
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#4. Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.
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#5. A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.
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#6. In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.
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#7. Pity, mercy, compassion."
"Thats's all I'm afraid," said Alfred.
"That is everything," said the phantasm.
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#8. Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.
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#9. Everything happens for a reason. Your brain may not know the reason. Your brain may never figure it out. But your heart knows. Your heart always knows.
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#10. Do not enter with defeat in your heart for that is the first victory of evil.
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#11. Magic is the recognition of the fire burning behind us when all else see only their own shadow on the wall.
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#12. A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic
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#13. Ignition! blast off!!! the vessel needs a new name! something more appropriate to a starship.
apollo? gemini? enterprise. already taken.
millennium falcon. trademarked. all rights reserved.
no! wait, i have it! dragin star! thats it! dragon star!
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#15. The blade must past threw the fire, else it breaks.
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#16. Just because a mage wears the black robes does not make him evil.
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#17. All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.
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#18. Riverwind: Why is it that you are called half-elf and not half-man?"
Tanis Half-Elven: "According to humans, half an elf is but part of a whole being. Half a man is a cripple.
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#19. Its like you said? i lead my people-" forth!" zifnab carried on enthusiastically! " out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the desert! pillar of fire-" desert?" lenthan looked anxious again. "fire? i thought we were going to the stars!" sorry. wrong script" zifnab said
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#20. Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!
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#21. We do not mourn the loss of those who die fulfilling their destinies.
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#22. Theros Ironfeld said once that - in all the years he had lived - he had never seen anything done out of love come to evil.
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#23. Over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it
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#24. A 'why' is a dangerous thing ... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. (Haplo)
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I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer. (Alfred)
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#27. Get back, get back! ill turn you into a piglet!
ast a bula- no wait. that turns ME into a piglet!!
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#28. You know sometimes I wish I'd been born a kender. No worries. No cares. No responsibilities. Nothing but pork chops. See you tonight Brother. I'd ask you to say a prayer but we're up to our eyeballs in gods as it is.
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#29. With the king's declaration of the disbanding of the Dragon Brigade, our service to our country comes to an end.
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#30. The cruelest form of torture one can inflict on a kender is to lock him up. Of course, it is also widely believed that the cruelest form of torture one can inflict on any other species is to lock them up with a kender.
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#31. No, as I've discovered, hate generally costs a man more than he can afford.
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#32. Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.
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#33. Yet without the darkness," said Palin suddenly, "we would never be aware that the stars exist.
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#34. You wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would-
i heard that!
gandalf enjoyed a good pipe!
why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robes
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#35. I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.
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#36. And he enjoyed listening to Caramon's gossip. Raistlin enjoyed proving to his own satisfaction that his fellow mortals were fools and idiots, while Caramon took immense pleasure in bringing a smile - albeit a sardonic smile - to his twin's lips.
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#37. It seems to me that being a great friend is more important than being a great hero or a great warrior. Being a good friend is the most important thing there is. Just think, if everyone in the world were great friends, then we wouldn't be such terrible enemies.
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#38. And that's my title, now. Master of the Games.
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#39. Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it ... quite ... fascinating.
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#40. My waking and sleeping seem mixed together. I'm walking in a dream half the time, and sleeping through reality the other half.
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#42. Not given to boasting, which was a waste of breath-only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world he has none.
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#43. Why Is It That When You Wash Two Socks You Only End Up With One? Is There Life After Death? and Where Did The Other Sock Go?
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#44. Then he heard a familiar voice.
"That's got 'em! Wonderfull spell, Fireball
"
"Fizban!" Tanis groaned.
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#45. The darkness might conquer, but it could never extinguish hope. And though one candle, or many, might flicker and die, new candles would be lit from the old. Thus hope's flame always burns, lighting the darkness until the coming of day.
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#46. You cannot hide from danger. Death floats on the air, creeps through the window, comes with the handshake of a stranger. If we stop living because we fear death, then we have already died.
-Raistlin Majere
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#47. Nothing on Krynn is more dangerous than a bored kender.
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#48. He listened gravely to the discussion of possible danger, but in truth, he paid little heed. Silvanoshei was young, and the young know they will live forever.
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#49. I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. - Raistlin Majere
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#50. Well, I guess we're off, like a herd of mad turtles as my dad used to say.
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#51. I wanted to tell her that sometimes, in my long sleep, I dreamt of her
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#52. My dragon? save anybody?
you must have have him confused with someone else- Smaug perhaps? ...
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#53. But he could not help wondering, as he did, that if he was so damn wise, why was his life in such a mess?
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#54. You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.
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#55. If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
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#56. Do not go to others for the answers. Look in your own heart, search your own faith. You will either find the answer or come to see that the answer is with the gods themselves, not with man.
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#57. He would be sad to learn that she had dismissed God long ago, as she would have dismissed an inept servant.
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#59. Tas had been teasing Flint unmercifully all morning, calling him "Seamaster" and "Shipmate" asking him the price of fish, and how much he would charge to Ferry them back across the lake. Flint finally threw a rock at him, and Tennis sent ass down to the lake to scrub out the pans.
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#60. Lord Milles stands before the One God, now, Galdar," Mina said, "where we will all stand one day. It is not for us to judge him.
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#61. Every man had to walk through a dark, starless night and, when he faced the morning, he'd be better for it.
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#63. Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it."
"Are you saying we shouldn't hope?"
"I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!
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#64. Great gandalfs ghost!
if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob ...
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#65. The magic will not solve your problems. It will only add to them. The magic will not make people like you. It will increase their distrust. The magic will not ease your pain. It will twist and burn inside you until sometimes you think that even death would be preferable."
-Antimodes, "Soulforge
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#66. In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
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#67. Sometimes people do much wrong unintentionally, meaning for the best
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#68. How dare you accuse me of your own failings?" Laurana returned. "I love Elistan. I reverence him.
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#69. Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose - though we may not understand it - and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!
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#70. One does not fail at a task. One merely does not succeed. And since one is always striving for success, so long as one continues striving, one can never truly fail.
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#71. His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.
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#72. The ones we love most are those we trust least.
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#73. New roads demand a hoopak," was a popular saying among kenderkind. It was always followed immediately by another of their sayings: "No road is ever old.
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#74. Lizards that blend into the rock do so to catch flies.
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#75. We'd better get going." Caramon glanced around uneasily. "We show up like a jewel in a gypsy dancer's navel.
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#77. Now there was nothing but awful, terrible silence. Sight is a sense outside and apart from the body, an image on the surface of the eye. But sound enters the ears, the head, it lives inside. In sound's absence, silence echoes.
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#78. Flint snorted. The kender was beginning to make sence, a fact that caused the dwarf to shake his head and wonder if maybe he shouldn't lie down somewhere out in the sun.
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#80. Tas stared mournfully at the body of the goblin he killed. It had fallen facedown, his dagger buried underneath. "I'll get it for you," Tanis offered, preparing to roll the body over. "No." Tas made a face. "I don't want it back. You can never get rid of the smell, you know.
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#81. Why insult the door's purpose by locking it? is a favorite kender expression.
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#83. Life like Stew!!! -Gully Dwarf saying (Dragonlance)
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#84. It was an old kender proverb - Don't change color to match the walls. Look like you belong and the walls will change color to match you.
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#85. Be thankful you can feel pity and horror at the death of an enemy. The day we cease to care, even for our enemies, is the day we have lost this battle.
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#86. Hope lives. No matter the mistakes we make, no matter our blunders and misunderstandings, no matter the grief and sorrow and loss, no matter how deep the darkness, hope lives.
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#87. If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.
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#88. Be the hero of your own life. Don't let somebody else play that role. (Vasu)
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