"Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it."

-- Oliver Cromwell

#War Quotes #Skills Quotes #Desire Quotes

“A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes”
“Be who you are, nothing more... nothing less.”

Source : Song: Hey Now Now, Album: Yell Fire!, 2006
“Someday each one of us will have to account to our Savior, Jesus Christ, for what we have done with His name.”
“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”
“Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.”

Source : Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, ch. 1, 1863.
“THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it's not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss.”
“When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.”
“Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2009). “Neuropath”, p.59, Macmillan

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