Stephen Herondale Quotes

I don't know who I am. I look at myself and I see Stephen Herondale, but I act like a Lightwood and talk like my father - like Valentine. So I see who I am in your eyes, and I try to be that person, because you have faith in that person and I think faith might be enough to make me what you want. ~ Cassandra Clare

Take freedom as your right. ~ Cassandra Clare

( ... )I don't know who I am. I look like Stephen Herondale, and I act like a Lightwood and I talk like my father- like Valentine. So I see myself in your eyes and i try to be that person and I think faith might be enough to make me who you wnat me to be. (Jace, to Clary) ~ Cassandra Clare

Awakening is no longer seen as something to attain in the distant future, for it is not a thing but a process - and this process is the path itself. But neither does this render us in any way perfect or infallible. We are quite capable of subverting this process to the interests of our far-from-extinct desires, ambitions, hatreds, jealousies, and fears. We have not been elevated to the lofty heights of awakening; awakening has been knocked off its pedestal into the turmoil and ambiguity of everyday life. There is nothing particularly religious or spiritual about this path. It encompasses everything we do. It is an authentic way of being in the world. It begins with how we understand the kind of reality we inhabit and the kind of beings we are that inhabit such a reality. Such a vision underpins the values that inform our ideas, the choices we make, the words we utter, the deeds we perform, the work we do. It provides the ethical ground for mindful and focused awareness, which in turn further deepens our understanding of the kind of reality we inhabit and the kind of beings we are that inhabit such a reality. And so on. ~ Stephen Batchelor

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty. ~ Stephen Covey

Every time a consumer walks into a retail store, experiences the Nokia experience for the first time and purchases that product. Those are the moments where you say, 'We've hit it. We've nailed it.' ~ Stephen Elop

Talk did no good with bullies. Hurting was the only language that the bullies of the world seemed to understand, and he supposed that was why the world always had such a hard time getting along. ~ Stephen King

You know it's when like you parents said "I'm not mad at you, just disappointed" You know that hurts so much more. ~ Stephen "Steve-O" Glover

None of us ever knows what impact we have on the world around us. ~ Stephen R. Lawhead

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada. ~ Stephen Harper

There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the golden hour. ~ Stephen Richards

he "obliterated by the praiseworthy use he made of leisure the stain he had incurred through his active exertions in former days. ~ Stephen Greenblatt

Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant, did you ever notice that? ~ Stephen King

Bad chances were better than no chances. ~ Stephen King

There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard. ~ Stephen Moyer

There is evil in the world, but there is also good"

If It Bleeds ~ Stephen King

If you want to be loved, then learn to love back. ~ Stephen Richards

Once upon a simpler time, before apps, iPads, Samsung Galaxies, and the world of blazing-fast 4G, weekends were the busiest days of the week at Discount Electronix. Now the kids who used to come in to buy CDs are downloading Vampire Weekend from iTunes, while their elders are surfing eBay or watching the TV shows they missed on Hulu. ~ Stephen King

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation. ~ Stephen Jay Gould

When the evening was over Alistair Cooke shook my hand goodbye and held it firmly, saying, 'This hand you are shaking once shook the hand of Bertrand Russell.'
'Wow!' I said, duly impressed.
'No, No,' said Cooke, 'It goes further than that. Bertrand Russell knew Robert Browning. Bertrand Russell's aunt danced with Napoleon. That's how close we all are to history. Just a few handshakes away. Never forget that. ~ Stephen Fry

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? ~ Stephen Ambrose

People die and starve every day, but look on the bright side. Lower population. ~ Stephen David McGoughan-Matthews

She wasn't wearing makeup that night, and didn't need any. The moonlight was her makeup. ~ Stephen King

Curiosity has wrongly, by those with a vested interest in ignorance and their own revealed truths, been traduced and eternally characterised as a dangerous felicide, but you, dearest of dear, dear readers, know that Curiosity lights the way to glory. ~ Stephen Fry

You're eating a bitter meal. You don't know that because someone told you it was sweet and your own tastebuds are numb. ~ Stephen King

It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a few days ago to reform House Republicans, who are feeling the heat from lobbyist scandals. Well, CNN found out that he rents his two-bedroom apartment from a lobbyist who had clients who had interests in legislation that Boehner sponsored. And for that, Mr. Boehner, you've just won a pair of Stephen Colbert's big brass balls. ~ Stephen Colbert

People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely. ~ Stephen Graham Jones

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world. ~ Stephen Baldwin

I prepare to the point where instinct take over ... ~ Stephen Curry

As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference. ~ Stephen Jay Gould

There are thousands of talented writers at work in America, and only a few of them (I think the number might be as low as five per cent) can support their families and themselves with their work. There's always some grant money available, but it's never enough to go around. As for government subsidies for creative writers, perish the thought. Tobacco subsidies, sure. Research grants to study the motility of unpreserved bull sperm, of course. Creative-writing subsidies, never. …America has never much revered her creative people; as a whole, we're more interested in commemorative plates from the Franklin Mint and Internet greeting-cards. And if you don't like it, it's a case of tough titty, said the kitty, 'cause that's just the way things are. Americans are a lot more interested in TV quiz shows than in the short fiction of Raymond Carver. ~ Stephen King

A woman in love, is what. In my experience, they got their own laws. ~ Stephen King

Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you. ~ Stephen Richards

Stephen Hawking implies that we are living in a Godless Universe or a Kingless Kingdom! In that case, Mankind must ascend the throne. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I grew up in Orange County, without a team. I never affiliated myself with the Chargers, south of me, or the Raiders, north of me. I've always followed the Dallas Cowboys. I've been a huge fan since the early '90s. ~ Stephen Colletti

Changing your name, it doesn't change your nature. Look at Sebastian - Jonathan. Calling himself Sebastian didn't make any difference in the end. I wanted to spurn the Herondale name because I thought I hated my father, but I don't hate him. He might have been weak and have made the wrong decisions, but he knew it. There's no reason for me to hate him. And there have been generations of Herondales before him - it's a family that's done a lot of good - and to let their whole house fall just to get back at my father would be a waste. ~ Cassandra Clare

Feeling it, trying to understand the suns that shone on it, the rains that fell on it, and the snows that covered it. And to wonder where I was when each thing happened to it in its lonely place, where I was, what I was doing, who I was loving, how I was getting along, where I was. I'd hold it, read it, feel it ... and look at my own face in whatever reflection might be left. ~ Stephen King

But they wrote like little old men and little old ladies, all purseymouthed and ooo, don't slip on that icy patch, Mildred. ~ Stephen King

Love me. My head is so bad tonight. Love me. Love me. ~ Stephen King

Hemingway Defense goes something like this: as a writer, I am a very sensitive fellow, but I am also a man, and real men don't give in to their sensitivities. ~ Stephen King

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about. ~ Stephen Sondheim

He felt as he always did when he finished a book - queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity. ~ Stephen King

The latest technologies are often sexy, but beware of solutions that vendors dress up like trollops, unless you're looking for a one-night stand. ~ Stephen Few

Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited. ~ Stephen White

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow. ~ Stephen Covey