"Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do." "Oh," said Harry. "You may, if you wish, unhorse him first," Mathin added as an afterthought. "Thanks," said Harry."

-- Robin McKinley

#Cutting Quotes #Blow Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest - is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves' actions.”
“Give the children love, more love and still more love â€“ and the common sense will come by itself.”

Source : "The 10 best Pippi Longstocking quotes" by Laura Tscherry, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2015.
“If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.”
“It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.”
“Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.”
“The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.”
“Tell yourself whatever you need to hear, you're the only one listening.”
“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.

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