"The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for……" — Kelley Armstrong
"The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony."
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250 Quotes by Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong has 250 quotes on this site.
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Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
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Demon, angel, all the same thing if you go back far enough, or cut deep enough.
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Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you suppose to be dead? Currently being chased by two Cabals? You're…
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I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.
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You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just…
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The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal…
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I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's…
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A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.
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He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a…
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Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that…
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Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.
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I thought you were all-seeing.” All-knowing, not all-seeing!” he snapped. “I’m a God, not Santa Claus!
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More Ceremony Quotes
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that…
— Jimmy Carter
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In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As…
— Jimmy Carter
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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won…
— Amy Chua
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.)…
— Carl Sagan
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us…
— Robert D. Hales
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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved.…
— Lloyd Alexander
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After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension…
— Henry David Thoreau
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but…
— Florence Nightingale
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