"Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we……" — Brent Weeks
"Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us."
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65 Quotes by Brent Weeks
Brent Weeks has 65 quotes on this site.
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You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it
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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.
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Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you…
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My writing has a lot of surprising twists,
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Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of…
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Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made…
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My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some…
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Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any…
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...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain…
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There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it…
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Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
— Cecil Beaton
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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection…
— Unknown Author
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If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers -…
— Bob Goodlatte
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
— Wole Soyinka
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And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world…
— George McGovern
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one…
— Charlotte Mason
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of…
— Ronald Reagan
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