The Hidden Blade Quotes

#1. Everything and everyone we treasured in this world comes to an end. I loved the world not for itself but for the marvelous gift that it was, and my only hope against eventual despair was to love something larger than the world, larger even than a near-infinite sparkling universe full of worlds.

Dean Koontz

#2. The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

Alan Moore

#3. But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#4. Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.

Steven Pinker

#5. The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.

Joe Abercrombie

#6. We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

Edwin Land

#7. And when the moment came, even then Genji would be fortunate. He would die without fear, drenched in his own heart's blood, in the embrace of a beautiful woman, and she would weep for him.

What samurai could hope for more?

Takashi Matsuoka

#8. I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

Dolly Parton

#9. The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense

Don Watson

#10. Space has always been confusing to politics.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else.

Lewis Carroll

#12. Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.

Jason Kidd

#13. She stuffed the goodies into her hidden running belt, jogged out of the park, and went shopping for duct tape, a razor blade, paper clips, and another disposable phone.

Janet Evanovich

#14. Life should be more like hockey. When someone pisses you off, you just beat the shit out of them, then sit in the penalty box for five minutes. ~ Sandman

Nicole James

#15. Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

Paula Abdul

#16. Their nasty whispering made me angry. They had a neat way of tucking their point inside something softseeming and neighborly. The cutting edge was hidden in a joke or a piece of advice. It was like being sliced by a tiny blade hidden in a goose feather; it took a moment to realize the wound.

Ananda Braxton-Smith

#17. Charging [creation of new karma] is under 'your' control and discharge [disposal of karma] is in nature's control. Therefore, if you want to charge, charge positively. Whatever you have charged, nature will not refrain from discharging.

Dada Bhagwan

#18. There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.

Lily Tomlin