Night Lords Quotes

#1. In the midst of a thick forest, there was a castle that gave shelter to all travelers overtaken by night on their journey: lords and ladies, royalty and their retinue, humble wayfarers.

Italo Calvino

#2. Less welcome to the people of Paneron is the STIFLER, a humid wind that brings the allergenic pollen of carp-weed bushes from nearby unpopulated islands.

Christopher Priest

#3. Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.

Tama J. Kieves

#4. Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?

Coleman Cox

#5. I... thank you for your offer," I said slowly, "but I've taken so much from the estate already."
"You scorn my offer?"
The roar of his rage momentarily deafened me and startled nearby birds from their roosts. Rubbing my ears, I hastily tried to assure him.

M.J. Haag

#6. I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#7. Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening

Mark Yudof

#8. I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

Doreen Cronin

#9. Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

John L. Lewis

#10. Would you condemn me to such a cavernous, empty life, Miranda?

Dominique Eastwick

#11. Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.

Sharon Salzberg

#13. How do you know they are Hunters?" Lucien asked.
"They had guns and knives strapped to their bodies, and I saw the mark of infinity on one of their wrists." Branding themselves was foolish, if you asked him. Like putting a neon sign around their necks that read 'Shoot here'.

Gena Showalter

#14. Act as if failure is impossible, and your success will be assured. Wipe out every thought of not achieving your objectives, whether they are material or spiritual.

Robin S. Sharma

#15. When you judge someone, it impairs your ability to see him or her clearly, as if a filter is screening out everything about that person except what fits your assessment.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#16. Refuse to accept partial completeness.

Timothy Ferriss

#17. Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,
Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,
Who will keep the world from death?
Who will stop the coming night?
Blue eyes, blue eyes, have the sight.

Madeleine L'Engle

#18. Memory is stupid, ain't it?

Patrick Ness

#19. A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.

Thich Nhat Hanh