"He looked down at his empty glass. "One of the other ways in which I am different from my father," he said. "I am not interested in marrying where I do not love." I spoke in a jesting voice. "And of all the women in the eight provinces, you have not been able to find one you could love?" Now he looked at me again, and his face was completely serious. "That's the problem," he said. "There is one."

-- Sharon Shinn

#Father Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Eight Quotes

“Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. And no, this isn't having "faith" in reason (in the same way that some people have faith in miracles), because we don't "believe" in reason; we use reason.”

Source : "Brilliant Father Teaches His Children to Argue With Him Using Ancient Greek Rhetoric". rebrn.com. May 29, 2009.
“I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!”

Source : "Edinburgh fringe's 10 funniest jokes revealed" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.
“As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.”
“The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.”
“Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage”
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317
“In romantic comedies there's a certain ceiling and a floor that you can't necessarily love as hard, or hate as hard, or have as much pain, because you sink the shop of the romantic comedy. But in a certain drama, like some of the ones I've been doing, the ceiling and the floor was my own. And in many ways, that was a higher ceiling and a lower floor, so that was more of a band-with for those emotions.”
“The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.”

Source : "Hellsing". Manga series by Kouta Hirano, 1997 - September 30, 2008.

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