Ami Coyle > Ami Coyle's Quotes

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
― William Wilberforce

“The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill?”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“there are plenty of Christians who may claim persecution who are actually suffering due to their own foolish or unrighteous behavior.”
― Skye Jethani, What If Jesus Was Serious?: A Visual Guide to the Teachings of Jesus We Love to Ignore

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
― Fred Rogers

“Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr.

“If you're going to start a new life, you might as well start it NOW.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Twist a Dragon's Tale

“It is no accident that those who are most likely to believe in the myth of meritocracy are young, upper-class, white Americans.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“And so, to return to Freud’s ‘riddle of femininity’, it turns out that the answer was staring us in the face all along. All ‘people’ needed to do was to ask women.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“There is a better way. And it's a pretty simple one: we must increase female representation in all spheres of life.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Not enough info makes for a lot of dead cats."
"Dead cats?"
"You know, 'Curiosity killed the cat.' And I have enough curiosity to start a feline genocide."
"Feline genocide?"
"Yeah. If you don't explain Apollo, the cat kingdom will crumble. Cats all over the world will suddenly plop down in unmoving masses of fur, their food will dry up in smelly chunks of fish, and when people call, 'Here, kitty kitty kitty,' no cats will come running; they'll just-" Walter suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Ashley asked.
Walter stared straight ahead. "I just realized . . . if all those things happened, no one would notice the difference." ~Walter~”
― Bryan Davis

“Too much information will make your brain choke.”
― Bryan Davis, Dragons in Our Midst: The Complete Series

“Forever and ever Bonnie, I will always be your friend.”
― Bryan Davis, Raising Dragons

“Speak the truth. Live the truth. Be the truth. Never let the faithless ones change any of those three principles.”
― Bryan Davis, The Bones of Makaidos

“Every adventure undertaken, every prophecy spoken or sung, every dangerous road pointed to this simple truth - a battle between good and evil rages every day.”
― Bryan Davis, Tears of a Dragon

“For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

“We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.”
― Cressida Cowell

“The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Be a Pirate

“Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..."
"Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Break a Dragon's Heart

“And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Twist a Dragon's Tale

“Hiccup followed him carefully ... and fell over again.
"BRAVO!" clapped Alvin, to Hiccup's surprise.
"But I fell over again" said Hiccup.
"But with such STYLE," said Alvin. "You can't teach that, it's in the blood.”
― Cressida Cowell

“History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time”
― Cressida Cowell

“The only GOOD Roman is a DEAD Roman,” said Camicazi.

Hiccup sighed. “That isn't true. I'm sure there are LOADS of good Romans. But all the good Romans are probably quietly minding their own business back in Rome.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Speak Dragonese

“He says he comes in peace," said Hiccup "He's still going to kill us, though.”
― Cressida Cowell

“The past never really leaves us.
And now I am an old, old man. I hover over my childhood self, as if I were a dead mother, and I am anxious for Hiccup's future because I already know it, and I want to protect the boy from the pain.
But I am happy too because I know the future is a curious mixture of joy and sadness.
So suddenly I throw away my fear, and I no longer shout "Stop!" I am shouting something slightly different now.
Walk on, Hiccup!
Have Courage!
Walk on to Tomorrow...
And I will meet you there at Hero's End...”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel

“Please do not blame the story.
The story cannot help itself. We do not realize it at the time, but sometimes the story we are all a part of is not just a story about Vikings and islands and dragons.
It is a story about growing up.
And one of the things about growing up, one of the inescapable, inevitable laws, is that one day...
One day... one day...
It is going to happen.
I am sorry, but it's true.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

“The thing is, we are all, in a sense, supper. Walking, talking, breathing suppers, that's what we are. Take you, for instance. YOU are about to be eaten by ME, so that makes you supper. That's obvious. But even a murderous carnivore like myself will be supper for worms one day. We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon

“I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.”
― Cressida Cowell

“Human hearts are not made out of stone.
Thank Thor.
They can break, and heal, and beat again.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Twist a Dragon's Tale

“Everything we do, you see, has its consequences and repercussions, every kind act, and every bad, every friend we make, and every enemy. Everything is connected.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel

“But the winds will still blow when I am no longer here. The storms will still rage, and the forces of Empire and oppression, be they Roman or otherwise, will still be waiting at the corners of the ocean.
The fight goes on for the Heroes of the Future.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Speak Dragonese