"Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan."

-- Guy Gavriel Kay

#Kings Quotes #Woods Quotes #Blame Quotes

“If you were going to be attracted to a mystical faith which involved the contemplative life, Buddhism would be quite reasonable. But then, not everybody is a budding mystic. In fact, it's pretty certain that very few people are. So another kind of religion, one that was perhaps more pragmatic and service-oriented, might appeal to those others. So I think you have to take your values into account.”
“Who needs a handbag? I put my money in my bra.”
“Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.”
“An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.”

Source : Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.412, OUP Oxford
“I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips”
“Assassin?...that sounds so exotic...i was just a murderer”
“Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]”
“No act of kindness is wasted.”

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