"To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity."

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Source : Steven Brust (2003). “The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha”, p.98, Macmillan

Steven Brust

#Fashion Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Eccentric Quotes

“The American economy is driven by small business. And there's nothing basically to create incentives for small businesses. We've done no tax reform. They're the highest-taxed group in the country. And corporations can go anywhere they want and do whatever they want. Small businesses have to stay...”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.”

Source : Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett (2013). “The Long War: (Long Earth 2)”, p.29, Random House
“Faith is a leap into the light, not a step into the darkness.”
“Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.”

Source : "My Opposition, Volume 1 (May 29, 1940)". Diary by Friedrich Kellner, 2011.
“The bluebells made such a pool that the earth had become like water, and all the trees and bushes seemed to have grown out of the water. And the sky above seemed to have fallen down on to the earth floor; and I didnâ€™t know if the sky was the earth or the earth was water. I had been turned upside down. I had to hold the rock with my fingernails to stop me falling into the sky of the earth or the water of the sky. But I couldnâ€™t hold on.”

Source : Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.37, Hachette UK
“We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.”

Source : "His Vampires Do a Lot More Than Just Suck". Interview with Paula Guran, darkecho.com. June 1999.
“God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything.”
“On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.”

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