"The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didnâ€™t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadnâ€™t dared to be."

-- Brent Weeks

#Coward Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Poison Quotes

“All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous.”
“-there was something in her, something that was...pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from.”
“It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.”
“God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.”

Source : Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.409, Simon and Schuster
“Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt”
“Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.”
“I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that somebody's getting more money than you are, but what's really annoying is if someone's painting a better painting than you're making. So it's something to think about and work toward and stay focused on.”
“There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.”

Source : Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.15, eNet Press

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