Ygor Wizard101 Quotes

#1. History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.

Penelope Lively

#2. A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

Charles Dickens

#3. The word "signal-box" is unpoetical. But the thing signal-box is not unpoetical; it is a place where men, in an agony of vigilance, light blood-red and sea-green fires to keep other men from death.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.

Bill Porter

#5. Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

Hesiod

#6. She brutalized flour and butter, she visited wartime atrocities to milk and yeast. She committed acts of crumpet.

T. Kingfisher

#7. If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.

Nicholas Kristof