Vizier's Quotes

#1. Gentle flexibility
is the way of the humble master

Lao-Tzu

#2. The Vizier is a genius, truly, if he can keep peace among three hundred women. I can't do so with only one.

Loretta Chase

#3. I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

Og Mandino

#4. And me? Well, I don't aspire to be king. That's just like being a highly paid pawn. I'm a bishop, a vizier. I'm always behind the scenes pulling the strings.

Charlie Human

#5. I'm attracting small children," Orma muttered, twisting his hat in his hands. "Shoo it away, will you?

Rachel Hartman

#6. My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.

C.S. Lewis

#7. Dichotomies are most mischevious when they arbitrarily separate parts of a highly interrelated and complex system.

David W. Ehrenfeld

#8. Throughout the history of humanity, only one refuge kept books safe from war and conflagration: the walking library, an idea that occurred to the grand vizier of Persia, Abdul Kassem Ismael, at the end of the tenth century. This

Eduardo Galeano

#9. A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball.

Pete Rose

#10. I always knew I was going to make it, without doubt.

Chazz Palminteri

#11. When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.

David Byrne

#12. When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

Giacomo Casanova

#13. How do you even know when you're anywhere near marrying someone? Is that question about time? Or distance?

Rainbow Rowell

#14. We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.

Oswald Chambers

#15. Her eyes are very bright. She loves senses, loves the world. He finds that ... admirable, and a bit daunting. I am a mole. I am hiding, in the company of a woman who adores the sunlight and the rain.

Nick Harkaway

#16. Translation: I need to know the particulars of craziness so I can assure myself that I'm not crazy.

Susanna Kaysen

#17. Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.

Terry Pratchett