Sounis Quotes

#1. Ah," said the magus, understanding at once. "I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again."
"Surely that's unlikely," said Sounis.
"I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of us," said the magus.

Megan Whalen Turner

#2. Eschewing ceremony, Eugenides said, "You shot the ambassador?"
"You gave me the gun," protested Sounis.
"I didn't mean for you to shoot the ambassador with it!" Eugenides told him.
"Oh, how our carefully laid plans go astray," murmured the magus.
"You shut up!" said Gen, laughing.

Megan Whalen Turner

#3. The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle and my own father and courtier after courtier, I assure you I am unrivaled at pretending not to notice other people's glances.

Megan Whalen Turner

#4. Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances."
Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?

Megan Whalen Turner

#5. If I couldn't be Eddis, I would be Attolia. If they needed to see my uncle in me, then I would show him to them. And I would take Attolia's advice because if I identified my enemy and destroyed him, Sounis would be safe.

Megan Whalen Turner

#6. I'm a thoroughly respectable woman."
"You don't kiss like one.

Ruthie Knox

#7. So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me."
"While I think you'll marry Sophos."
"I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.

Megan Whalen Turner

#8. Donors want to meet famous people, and getting a high profile draw for a fundraiser is one way to boost both the crowd and the cash. It's why the president and the vice president are always in demand. These folks are in demand because people around the country want to meet them.

Carl Forti

#9. Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

Ernest Holmes

#10. I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.

Lynn Westmoreland

#11. Thank you for giving me the courage to always ask the questions, even when I don't want the answers.

Colleen Hoover

#12. I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. But that's hindsight for you: never there when you need it.

Janet Givens

#15. I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

Dennis Miller

#16. So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real.

Mark Haddon

#17. coltish-looking,

H.W. Brands

#18. Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.

Megan Whalen Turner

#19. If you look at my history, I'm not gonna let that many people into whatever I'm going through.

Andy Kim

#20. I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.

Reese Witherspoon

#21. I haven't been locked into just the sci-fi although I love it - mostly for the fans ... It's tremendous to go out and do all these conventions and thank them for supporting the show. But it's been a mix ... I mean I (also) love the warm and fuzzies (like Cedar Cove and My Best Friends' Dogs).

Teryl Rothery

#22. As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

William Wycherley