"Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already."

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Eoin Colfer

#Running Quotes #Queens Quotes #Wine Quotes

“I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.”
“And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

Source : Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.22, Advaita Ashrama
“As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.”
“Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.”
“It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.”
“The baby is a different person”
“I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.”

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