Tal Taran > Tal's Quotes

“Wise? No, I simply learned to think.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”
― Christopher Paolini

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
― Groucho Marx

“Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do”
― Christopher paolini

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“One part brave, three parts fool!”
― Christopher Paolini

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“I BELIEVE!!!!!!!"
- Johnny”
― Ted Dekker, Showdown

“Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.”
~Blink”
― Ted Dekker

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker

“…It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness’’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!”
― Ted Dekker, Saint

“I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.”
― Groucho Marx, Groucho and Me

“The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.”
― Ted Dekker, The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth

“Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.”
― Groucho Marx

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don’t want to go back, because they’re comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.”
― Ted Dekker, Saint

“She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair.”
― Ted Dekker, BoneMan's Daughters

“Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.”
― Frank Peretti

“That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?”
No, not dying, Son. Living.”
― Ted Dekker, Blessed Child

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
― Walt Disney

“God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.”
― Ted Dekker

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.”
The skin of this world,” he said quietly.”
― Ted Dekker, Skin

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.”
― Ted Dekker, Showdown

“Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
"Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.”
― Ted Dekker, Saint