Quotes About Severian

#1. I said he had called them because it was from his mind that we drew them, seeking those who hated him, or at least had reason to. The giant you saw might have mastered the Commonwealth, had Severian not defeated him. The blond woman could not forgive him for bringing her back from death.

Gene Wolfe

#2. Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

Gene Wolfe

#3. Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.

Salman Khurshid

#4. On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.

Nelson A. Miles

#5. I took a deep breath. The alligators were halfway up to my ass. Might as well let 'em keep climbing.

Suzanne Johnson

#6. All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

Karl Pilkington

#7. Art means to dare - and to have been right.

Ned Rorem

#8. I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.

Gene Wolfe

#9. Why? Why don't you want to go with me?"
She huffed. "It's not that I don't want to go with you, it's that I'm not going at all."
"So you do want to go with me."
Cinder locked her shoulders. "It doesn't matter. Because I can't."
"But I need you.

Marissa Meyer

#10. I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

Stephen Chbosky

#11. I think what I really mean is that [she] won't be WANTING things to happen. She will want things to say just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exciting may be just round the corner.

Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

#12. I just ... I've fantasized about peace and quiet for so long, dreamt about being left alone ... but when the TV was off, and the sun was down ... I'm in a full sob right now. I've just never felt so alone, and I couldn't take it.

Andrea Randall

#13. When I'm rhyming it's all in my head ... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

Wyclef Jean

#14. After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists.

Noam Chomsky

#15. In many ways we are a dream for people, not a reality. That counts in your mind. It shows how much you can touch people, and as much as you can try to give those people somehow it is nothing compared to what they live in their own mind, in their dreams, for you.

Ayrton Senna

#16. He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Aristotle.