Stakeness Quotes

#1. How does one address ... the master of the vampire executioners? My lord? Your grace? Your stakeness?

Colleen Gleason

#2. The heated debates about Homo sapiens' 'natural way of life' miss the main point. Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, there hasn't been a single natural way of life for Sapiens. There are only cultural choices, from among a bewildering palette of possibilities.

Yuval Noah Harari

#3. No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.

Sulla

#4. I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

Margaret Atwood

#5. To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

Cat Stevens

#6. Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.

Philip Hammond

#7. What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

Julian Barnes

#8. Don't bow your head!
It gets even harder...

Look at me
and say that, what was incomplete.
Think of forbidden
and dream, as I do.
...

Zorica Savron

#9. Zhou watched the fake Chung's face vanish to be replaced by another's.
"Look, Hsin," Zhou snarled, "this is your fault."
"No." Hsin's voice was a desperate whisper.

G.R. Matthews

#10. All my characters are me, in one way or another.

Nick Harkaway

#11. There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie - she is gone on now - I feel her right with me.

Kimberly Schlapman