Sabetha Quotes

#1. toward the Mount.4

Dante Alighieri

#2. The preacher must be a serious man; he must never give the impression that preaching is something light or superficial or trivial.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#3. Bombs take hours or days to reach every corner of the earth. Words arrive instantly and kill more people. They are a weapon of mass destruction.

Haim Harari

#4. It may be the case that [post-Holocaust] the authentic Jewish
agnostic and the authentic Jewish believer are closer than at
any previous time.

Emil Fackenheim

#5. Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great.

Natalie Zea

#6. Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.

Felicia Day

#8. The practice of love is the procreation of hope.

Bryant McGill

#9. Nature" doesn't really have intentions, per se. Nature is a drunk waking up from a weekend bender, ambling through a messy kitchen in a pair of mismatched slippers, seeing its car in the neighbor's pool and saying, "Ah good. It was dirty. Just the thing.

Pat Connid

#10. Interesting," said Sabetha, "that I mention my own feelings, and you seem to think that what I'm after is reassurance concerning your perceptions.

Scott Lynch

#11. We want what we want. We don't need to justify it. And we can take it, we should. I want you, and I'm taking you.

Scott Lynch

#12. Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

Joseph Addison

#13. Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster.

David Wellington

#14. You're a difficult woman, Sabetha. But then, difficult women are the only ones worth falling in love with.

Scott Lynch

#15. I keep asking myself," whispered Sabetha, giving Locke's arm a squeeze, "ARE we smarter than that woman's chicken?"
"At the moment, it's an open question," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#16. My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

Anne Stevenson

#17. I'm ever so sorry,' said Sabetha. If the words THAT WAS A LIE had suddenly sprung up behind her in letters of fire ten feet high, the effect could scarcely have added to her tone of voice.

Scott Lynch

#18. Sloppy idiot," Sabetha muttered at last. "You're trying to be charming. Well, I do not choose to be charmed by you, Locke Lamora.

Scott Lynch

#19. I more proudly take a speck from a man with empty pockets," said Sabetha, "than riches from a man whose purse stays heavy.

Scott Lynch

#20. Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

LL Cool J

#21. Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

Carl Jung