"That is the trick of good government. To……" — Robin Hobb
"That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention."
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113 Quotes by Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb has 113 quotes on this site.
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I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.
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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before…
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I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out…
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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
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Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your…
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The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.
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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.
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Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they…
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THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties,…
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life…
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More Desire Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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