Orddu Quotes

#1. I ask no comfort," Taran replied, "but the truth, be it harsh or happy."
"Ah, my sweet robin," said Orddu, "for the finding of that, nothing is harder. There are those who have spent lifetimes at it, and many in worse plight than yours.

Lloyd Alexander

#2. During that grace period, nothing much could bother me or get me down. The horrible thing that I'd always dreaded was going to happen to me had finally happened.

Tim Kreider

#3. Virgil put it with Roman bluntness and economy. Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat? cried Aeneas's comrade as they fought their way out of burning Troy disguised in Greek armor; which may be loosely translated: It won't matter to the enemy whether you beat him by guile or by valor.

Thaddeus Holt

#4. He could be disciplined when he wanted to be.

Alexandra Robbins

#5. For the odd thing about wisdom is the more you use it the more it grows; and the more you share, the more you gain. You'd be amazed how few understand that.

Lloyd Alexander

#6. To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan.

George Voinovich

#7. Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.

Mary Lascelles

#8. she had been playing a role all her life, and being good at it was no excuse for giving in to it.

Amber Brock

#9. If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'

Edsger Dijkstra

#10. It is hard to struggle for success but harder for survival.

M.F. Moonzajer

#11. To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#12. Waves broke, then sighed as if they were searching, not finding, then coming back, never giving up the search, returning again and again.

Terri Farley

#13. For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

Anthony Daniels

#14. The source of the problem is in Syria. Raqqa is the headquarters of ISIL, which is a lethal terrorist organization, now army. If you don't go after them over there, they're going to hit us over here, and there's no substitute for that in my view.

Rand Paul

#15. No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.

Sorin Cerin

#16. Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.

Amah Lambert