Raistlin Quotes

#1. Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it."
"Are you saying we shouldn't hope?"
"I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!

Margaret Weis

#2. Raistlin laughed until he thought he might have hurt something inside him. The laughter felt good. For a time, it banished the darkness.

Anonymous

#3. If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.

Ken Robinson

#4. I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. - Raistlin Majere

Margaret Weis

#5. You cannot hide from danger. Death floats on the air, creeps through the window, comes with the handshake of a stranger. If we stop living because we fear death, then we have already died.
-Raistlin Majere

Margaret Weis

#6. Tanis blinked with disbelief, then he heard a sound behind him that nearly made him leap into a tree in panic. He whirled around, heart in his throat, sword in his hand. Raistlin was laughing.

Tracy Hickman

#7. I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

Nancy Lopez

#8. Hope is the denial of reality. - Raistlin

Margaret Weis

#9. The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

Henry James Sumner Maine

#10. The American dream is at jeopardy. This president [Obama] has defined the American dream as more dependence on the government. We need to restore the American dream so it's more about opportunity and growth and not redistribution.

Bobby Jindal

#11. For some reason, I'm the guy people love to hate, which I think is weird. People who know me find that very strange, but for some reason, I am. I don't mind being that guy - I have fun with it.

Dave Bautista

#12. Things that are impossible usually take time.

Robert Reed

#13. My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

#14. Raistlin opened his eyes, looking at her without recognition. And in them, she saw deep, undying sorrow
the look of one who has been permitted to enter a realm of deadly, perilous beauty, and who now finds himself, once more, cast down into the grey, rain-swept world.

Tracy Hickman

#15. And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time-as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis," the mage whispered, "I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.

Margaret Weis

#16. Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

Dan Quayle

#17. A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.

Criss Jami

#18. Raistlin, watching, said breathily, "Remember, Caramon, shaken, not stirred.

Kevin Stein

#19. You can twist the truth but you cannot break it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. I never want to grow up.

Tyler, The Creator

#21. and someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.

Margaret Weis

#22. Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it ... quite ... fascinating.

Margaret Weis

#23. And he enjoyed listening to Caramon's gossip. Raistlin enjoyed proving to his own satisfaction that his fellow mortals were fools and idiots, while Caramon took immense pleasure in bringing a smile - albeit a sardonic smile - to his twin's lips.

Margaret Weis

#24. Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day.

Doug Stanhope