"Why did Mother ask you to help me rescue Gelsi?" I asked Leif. "She thought I could assist you in some way. Instead, I had tried to-" "Kill me? You can join the 'I Want to Kill Yelena Guild.' I hear they have six members in good standing. Valek is president since he had wanted to kill me twice." --Yelena to Leif"

-- Maria V. Snyder

#Mother Quotes #President Quotes #Six Quotes

“Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (2013). “Odd John and Sirius”, p.28, Courier Corporation
“Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire.”
“You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.”

Source : Mikhail Lermontov (2015). “A Hero of Our Time”, p.119, Xist Publishing
“God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.”

Source : Toast before the Vicksburg Campaign on February 22, 1863. "A Popular and Authentic Life of Ulysses S. Grant". Book by Edward Deering Mansfield, 1868.
“I'm competitive at everything.”
“The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.”
“Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.”
“I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing, I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.”

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