Quotes About Guilds

#1. Do you think it could be that those in charge of the guilds keep the system in operation after it has outlived its original purpose? It seems to me that the system works by suppression of knowledge. I don't see what that achieves. It has made me very discontented, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Christopher Priest

#2. The thief sighs. 'Perhaps. After that, she started talking about this ancient legend they have, about a creature called the Sleeper with a billion hit points, and after it was finally killed by a coalition of a thousand guilds, it dropped a small rusty dagger.

Hannu Rajaniemi

#3. I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

Griffin Dunne

#4. In many guilds artisans struck for higher pay and shorter hours. In an age when social conditions were regarded as fixed, such action was revolutionary.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#5. Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

John Ortberg

#6. The feudal system of industry, under which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets.

Friedrich Engels

#7. I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.

Tommy Shaw

#8. If
you're going to be truly successful, then set yourself apart from
everyone else. Go beyond the limits of what classifies the average
person and be exceptional.

Donald Trump

#9. I wondered what Finley would say if she were here. Probably something like, 'Stab him with silver and see if it kills him.

Rachel Hawkins

#10. I like David Foster Wallace. But if you type David Foster Wallace into OkCupid, it's a shitshow.

Moira Weigel

#11. Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

C.S. Lewis

#12. The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the world we create. Neurocircuitry may be neurocircuitry, but we don't have to run on automatic.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#13. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

Eric Clapton

#14. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

Marilyn French

#15. There is a new codeword going round school. DFS. It means 'desperate for sex.' It sounds like you are talking about the furniture shop. For the record, I'm certainly DFS. In fact I am permanently shopping in DFS with no hope of getting out of the store.

Rae Earl

#16. God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence.

Kedar Joshi

#17. Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Jean De La Fontaine

#18. Our passion is and should always be to make life better.

Martha Stewart

#19. The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.

Scott Turow