Top 26 Tanis's Quotes
#1. Riverwind: Why is it that you are called half-elf and not half-man?"
Tanis Half-Elven: "According to humans, half an elf is but part of a whole being. Half a man is a cripple.
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
#2. Flint", said Tanis gravely."I know you'll be terribly disappointed. But you've only got a cold. You're not dying.
Mark Anthony
#3. You tell him for me: if he fucks with you, if he lays one Russian knuckle on you, your buddy is coming after him and someone's gonna need a screen door to fish out the pieces.
Damon Suede
#4. The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.
Richard Dawkins
#5. Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.
Tom Bissell
#6. One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.
Lizz Winstead
#7. 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
#8. My preference is that of a salt-inclined palate over a sweet-craving one, but also one developed through reading, travel, and temperament.
David Tanis
#9. Then he heard a familiar voice.
"That's got 'em! Wonderfull spell, Fireball
"
"Fizban!" Tanis groaned.
Margaret Weis
#10. We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds and affections of our youth ... This canker is eating on the vitals of our existence, and if not arrested at once, will be beyond remedy.
Thomas Jefferson
#11. 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
#13. Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. 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
#15. (Mavis led Lorelei over to a shaded spot on the deck where a large pile of shirts, pants, and socks waited. From where she stood, it was a daunting task.)
How long have you been working on that? Just since the dawn of time, or eternally? (Lorelei)
Kinley MacGregor
#16. I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.
Charlotte Rampling
#18. Fifty-five percent of people use the same password across most Web sites, and 40 percent don't even bother to use one at all on their smart phones.
Marc Goodman
#19. 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
#20. Tas stared mournfully at the body of the goblin he killed. It had fallen facedown, his dagger buried underneath. "I'll get it for you," Tanis offered, preparing to roll the body over. "No." Tas made a face. "I don't want it back. You can never get rid of the smell, you know.
Margaret Weis
#21. Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.
Learned Hand
#23. Given everything he'd put me through, he was seriously lucky that's all I took a knife to. Don't think I didn't fantasize about going all Lorena Bobbitt on his ass.
Brandi Glanville
#24. The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
George Eliot
#25. If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
Margaret Weis
#26. The map we made of the 3,000-year-old city of Tanis requires no imagination. It has buildings, streets, admin complexes, houses - clear as day.
Sarah Parcak
