Quotes About Tertius

#1. So Septimus will be the eighty-second Lord of Stormhold," said Tertius.
"There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of unhatched chicks," pointed out Quintus.

Neil Gaiman

#2. I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

Chris O'Donnell

#3. Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#4. That mist was thick. It was hard to see at times. The wind was wild. It'd come at me one way and hit me from the front, and hit me from the back.

Nik Wallenda

#5. God is merciful to people who have not measured up; merciful to people who have turned from God toward their own desires; merciful to people whom he created to glorify him but who found the god of perfection more alluring than the perfect God.

Amy Baker

#6. If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it ... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.

Ernest Becker

#7. There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#8. One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.

Sam Altman

#9. Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's a contradiction in terms to attempt to be a good businessman and to also be liberal.

Sydney Pollack

#10. If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

Mark Twain

#11. In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim.

EL Seed

#12. I'd never have thought of the residents of those neighbourhoods as community activists, though it did make sense that, if they were going to protest anything, it would be the possibility of gay sex in their immediate vicinity.

Drew Nellins Smith

#13. It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

Oliver Goldsmith

#14. need to let go of the need to be in control.

Charlene Li

#15. I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio.

George Carlin

#16. Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

Frans De Waal