Sev Quotes

#1. Thought we were supposed to be friends? Best friends?"
"We are, Sev.

J.K. Rowling

#2. Sev, feeling embarrassed by his reaction, examined the bones. The left arm came off in his hand. "Yep, he's dead all right." Scorch sucked his teeth noisily. It was extra-amplified in the scuba trooper helmets. "Sure you don't want a second opinion, Doc?" "Nah, I'm prepared to go out on a limb.

Karen Traviss

#3. Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck
It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck; But sev'ral years ago I changt my mind, an' now proclaim That luck's a kind uv science
same as any other game.

Eugene Field

#4. Scorch: "I think Sev might have an anger problem."
Sev: "I think you have an intelligence problem.

Karen Traviss

#5. The bhel-puri stall was a sculptured landscape with its golden pyramid of sev, the little snow mountains of mumra, hillocks of puris, and, in among their valleys, in aluminium containers, pools of green and brown and red chutneys.

Rohinton Mistry

#6. Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears
To-day of past Regrets and future Fears
To-morrow?
Why, To-morrow I may be
Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.

Omar Khayyam

#7. Any sign of what killed him, Scorch?"
"Let's ask Sev. He's a dead-body-ologist."
[Sev examines the body and its arm falls off]
"Yep, he's dead alright."
"Sure you don't want a second opinion, Doc?"
"Nah, I'm ready go out on a limb.

Karen Traviss

#8. A dream long lost in the compulsive effort to fill space, to replicate some family image of self.

William Gibson

#9. If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.

Thomas Sowell

#10. At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.

Wendell Berry

#11. Grief has a colour. It has other characteristics, I know now, collectively forming a personality of sorts. An antagonizing figure that arrives in your life and refuses to leave or sit anywhere but next to you or stop whispering the name of the departed in your ear.

Andrew Pyper

#12. He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.

Ellen Hopkins

#13. People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

Eugene Ionesco

#14. America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.

Vladimir Putin

#15. An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

Charles E. Burchfield