Quote by Ian C. Esslemont Download Open image ““Doesn’t certitude stand behind both sides in almost all confrontations?”” — Ian C. Esslemont ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Fearing our confrontations is one thing... facing them unarmed is a completely different matter.” — Mark W. Boyer Copy Share Image
“There is a very thin line between fighting for what you believe to be right and becoming that which you are fighting against.” — Mark Sheldon Copy Share Image
“The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Anything worth having demands that we fight for it. Even against our own self-doubt.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Naturally, also, both sides were convinced they had right on their side, not that either was remotely naive enough to think that had any… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is not the time to reawaken old oppositions, but rather to seek what lies above and beyond all opposition.” — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
“I am unacquainted with a more deplorable spectacle than that of a people unable either to defend or to maintain its independence.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“They know that conflict drives passion, so they amplify our differences and toughe their rhetoric'.” — a CNN journalist Copy Share Image
“There is much running of vomit and faeces on board this ship. Please stop adding to it.” — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“I was very young when I joined. I’d grown up sheltered – and a touch spoiled. Like anyone, I suppose.” — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“for all went to dark then and he allowed himself release without regret, without anger, without expectation of anything.” — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“And that just makes it all the harder, doesn’t it? Not being special. Not having that funny mark or that omen at your birth.… — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“Did we not look out together upon the dark waters of the lake And behold there the constellations Of both hemispheres at once? -Love… — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“Yes. It is your turn – as it is everyone’s at some time. The test is in our response.” — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“Who are you,’ it boomed, ‘to light a fire here in the depths of Himatan?’ [...] ‘Someone who would dare to do so,’ Pon-lor… — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“Xethel laughed again, though rather nervously this time. ‘Then I name you Amman-an-ash. The One Who Would Know Everything.’ She nodded in Dancer’s direction.… — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“We do not follow the philosophy of purity versus pollution. That is a false choice, a false dichotomy. The truth is, nothing is “pure”.… — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
