Brian Staveley Quotes

You had to admire her, and you had to do it fast, because she was about to get all kinds of killed. ~ Brian Staveley

Resist faith. Resist trust. Believe only in what you touch with your hands. The rest is error and air. ~ Brian Staveley

Gardening?" Kaden asked. "Why?"
The assassin looked amused. "We need to eat. The hot blood of the slaughtered is delicious, obviously, but sometimes the body craves vegetables. ~ Brian Staveley

I'd leave you here longer, but it's no longer safe. ~ Brian Staveley

What I observe is that the world is ruled by men - good men and bad, desperate men and those with principles. ~ Brian Staveley

It takes work to keep the world whole. A simple thing like a cup needs to be cleaned each day, placed carefully back on the shelf, not dropped. A city, in its own way, is every bit as delicate. People move over the causeways, ply the canals with their oars, go between their markets and their homes, buy and barter, swindle and sell, and all the while, mostly unknowingly, they are holding that city together. Each civil word is a stitch knitting it tight. Every law observed, willingly or grudgingly, helps to bind the whole. Every tradition, every social more, every act of neighborly goodwill is a stay against chaos. So many souls, so much effort, so difficult to create and so simple to shatter. ~ Brian Staveley

dozens of groups of seven to sit on the dozens of trials that would take place, each group composed, as decreed by Terial himself, of the Seven: a mother, a merchant, a pauper, a prelate, a soldier, a son, and a dying man. ~ Brian Staveley

Pain is suffering because we want to be free of it, and pleasure is suffering because we fear to lose it. Fools search for freedom, but there is no freedom. There is only the embrace. ~ Brian Staveley

Emptiness exists only when something else has been gouged away. ~ Brian Staveley

We all have our hobbies," Kaden replied. He could have been discussing farming techniques. ~ Brian Staveley

The man still fighting last week's battle will always lose to the man already fighting tomorrow's, ~ Brian Staveley

Ask a pig, sometime, about the trouble predicting the future from the past."

"I stared at him, trying to decide if he was joking. "I've been short on prognosticating pigs."

"Life is perfect for a pig," Ruc said. "Plenty of slops. A shed to keep off the rain. A good wallow. Every day for months a pig wakes up to the same perfect life. Sometimes for years. Then someone ties his hind legs together and cuts his throat while he squeals... The fact that my head's still attached at my neck doesn't mean no one's sharpening a knife. ~ Brian Staveley

Leadership isn't just about giving orders. A fool can give orders. A leader listens. He changes his mind. He acknowledges mistakes. ~ Brian Staveley

Henderson Jakes, the founder of the Eyrie, had envisioned a cadre of elite soldiers dedicated to celibacy, the empire, and the art of war. He had to settle for two out of three. Young men and women willing to leap off massive birds into burning buildings at a mere nod from a commanding officer grew violently rebellious when required to abstain from sex. ~ Brian Staveley

There's no shame, the Kettral said, in crying in your own rack. The rest of the equation remained unspoken, axiomatic: you could cry all you wanted in your rack, provided you got up again in a day or two, provided that when you got up, you went back out, and that when you went back out, you were the baddest, fastest, most brutal motherfucker ~ Brian Staveley

If you hope to play a part in this empire, Sanlitun had told her time and time again, you must learn to divorce your feelings from your face. The world sees what you allow it to see, judges you according to what you reveal. ~ Brian Staveley

The mind was a clay pot set out in the rain. A monk could empty it daily and still the old hopes and worries, the body's meager strengths and perennial pains pattered against the bottom, trickled down the sides, filling it once more. ~ Brian Staveley

I'm doubly sorry for your loss," the old monk began after a time. "First, because every son should have a chance to know his father, not as a child knows his protector, but as a man knows another man. ~ Brian Staveley

Obedience is a knife that cuts the cord of bondage.
Silence is a hammer that shatters the walls of speech.
Stillness is strength; pain a soft bed.
Put down your basin; emptiness is the only vessel. ~ Brian Staveley

Assume nothing,'" he said. The first chapter of the Tactics. "If we figure everyone might be a murderer, we're less likely to be disappointed. ~ Brian Staveley

I'm losing the game, which means I have three choices: cede, fight back..." ...Kaden smiled, "Or break the board. ~ Brian Staveley

The idea ... seemed about as likely as a shark strolling out of the sea on its fins to ask for a bowl of soup. ~ Brian Staveley

There's no blade as keen as surprise. ~ Brian Staveley

Easier to recall a loosed falcon than a spoken word. ~ Brian Staveley

Any fool can see what's there. You need to see what is not there. ~ Brian Staveley

It was just as all the Kettral said: You went to Hook to escape your problems and came back with a dozen more. ~ Brian Staveley

It is a meager freedom that leaves no scars ~ Brian Staveley

Our lives were short, no more than a blink to the foes we fought, but we were fertile. Fathers fought our battles, but it was our mothers who won the war. ~ Brian Staveley

Only a fool believes a thing of value will be laid in her lap with no reckoning. ~ Brian Staveley

we use the time we have. There is no other. ~ Brian Staveley

The fighters who frighten you are not the fighters to fear. The man you barely notice will be the one to bury a blade in your back. ~ Brian Staveley

Blinding light. Perfect black. Ringing like a million mouths, screaming, singing. Body instantly and utterly gone. Gone the rain. Gone the mob. Gone her own mind and will. Gone everything but a single voice, ~ Brian Staveley

Our human flesh is better than most things at keeping pace with its own decay, and yet it takes so little - a tiny knife dragged across the windpipe, a dropped roof tile, a puddle three inches deep - to unmake a man or woman. It's amazing, given everything's fragility, that we don't live in a smashed world, all order and structure utterly undone, the whole land heaped with bone, charred wood, carelessly shattered glass. It amazes me sometimes that anything is still standing. ~ Brian Staveley

The process is the goal," Kaden responded innocently, trying not to feel smug. It was about time one of those Shin maxims worked in his favor. ~ Brian Staveley

It was strange the way that people venerated truth. Everyone seemed to strive for it, as though it were some unalloyed good, a perfect gem of glittering rectitude. Women and men might disagree about its definition, but priests and prostitutes, mothers and monks all mouthed the word with respect, even reverence. No one seemed to realize how stooped the truth could be, how twisted and how ugly. ~ Brian Staveley

among a soft folk obsessed with words, choosing the right word is nearly as important as doing the right thing." The ~ Brian Staveley

This is what we are for, Alin," the older guardsman said, turning to his companion. Adare had never heard anyone use Birch's first name. She hadn't even known it herself. "Our lives for hers. If she refuses this, there's no saying what the zealots will do to her."

"There's no saying what the zealots will do if she agrees," Birch pointed out. "We can't save her if we're dead."

"That is a risk that the princess will have to assess for herself. Our duty is to serve."

"I thought service meant fighting," Birch protested, but the anger had gone out of him. Resignation thinned his voice.

"Sometimes, Alin," Fulton replied, nodding. "And sometimes it means dying. ~ Brian Staveley

Like waves, men and women exist only in motion, in change. Put them on the page, and you have already failed. And ~ Brian Staveley

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work. ~ Brian Tracy

You might not be able to stomach it, but as long as you can mind it, your heart will be all right. ~ Brian Celio

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary. ~ Brian Perkins

I have been to so many funerals now. We bury them in the gray soil, stand over the mounds, lean on our shovels. Say the same words again and again. But there are pregnancies too, children coming. A woman like a great egg. Another just conceived. They help us dig, then turn and spit into the earth. They will not say it, but they cannot keep it all in either. For their coming children are their hopes embodied, their faith made flesh, that all that is ending is beginning again. For the world will not be fallen to their children. It will only be the world, new as they are. And perhaps if we tell them enough, if we say the right thing, they will see a way out, and know what to do. ~ Brian Francis Slattery

Only faith in CHRIST is acceptable to God, because only CHRIST is acceptable to God. ~ Brian Williams

I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory. ~ Brian Jacques

Partners:
Tied together by stuff too difficult to explain to someone new ~ Brian Andreas

... and Brian Dooher is down injured. And while he is, I'll tell ye a little story. I was in Times Square in New York last week, and I was missing the Championship back home. So I approached a newsstand and I said 'I suppose you wouldn't have the Kerryman would you?' To which the Egyptian man behind the counter replied 'do you want the North Kerry edition or the South Kerry edition?'. He had both, so I bought both. And Dooher is back on his feet... ~ Micheal O Muircheartaigh

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free. ~ Brian Joyce

I've made a commitment that any tax increase, I'm going to veto. It's the worst thing we could do. We have an amount of money to spend. That's it. ~ Brian Sandoval

I have photographed sharks in waters around the globe, and I always want more and yearn to peer deeper into their world. To feed my passion and to raise awareness, I developed a story about sharks for 'National Geographic' magazine. ~ Brian Skerry

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements. ~ Brian Kernighan

I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away. ~ Brian Greene

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect. ~ Brian McKnight

Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can. ~ Brian Selznick

Please don't be dead. Because then I'd have to be the Sorcerer Supreme and there's no way I could rock the 'stache. ~ Brian Michael Bendis

I am deeply honored by the opportunity to lead Intel. We have amazing assets, tremendous talent, and an unmatched legacy of innovation and execution. I look forward to working with our leadership team and employees worldwide to continue our proud legacy while moving even faster into ultra-mobility to lead Intel into the next era. ~ Brian Krzanich

In the previous few minutes, I had seen the most beautiful thing that eyes can see: the glory of God shining in the radiance of creation. I had heard the most beautiful thing that ears can hear: friends telling friends that they love one another. And I had felt the most beautiful thing that any heart can ever feel: the love of God and the love of others. ~ Brian D. McLaren

Suck my hemorrhoids! ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production. ~ Brian Tracy

I'm sure if Socrates were alive today, and had to sit through even a single meeting discussing how to use data to inform instruction, he'd kill himself all over again. ~ Brian Huskie

Thousand Moments:
I still remember the day the world took you back & there was never time to thank you for the thousand scattered moments you left behind to watch us while we slept. ~ Brian Andreas

You wear your shame like a badge, because you don't have the balls to actually pin one on. ~ Brian Azzarello

Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic. ~ Brian Greene

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, "My heart resumed its place." Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been "as much afraid of me as I had been of him. ~ C. Brian Kelly

Everyone in England ate mutton, but not horse meat, especially as influential people considered horses they had ridden both noble and too close to humans for either clerics or lords to consume. ~ Brian M. Fagan

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them. ~ Brian Tracy

There's so much overlapping in science fiction. ~ Brian Herbert

She said, You may be able to implant an image, even a taste or a smell, but I don't think you can implant the feelings that went with the experience that created the memory. ~ Brian Falkner

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. ~ Brian Eno