Quotes - Ivan (Burgas, Bulgaria) Showing 1-30 of 96

#1

“The field of battle is my temple. I mentally chant a saying my grandfather taught me the day he met me, when I was six. He insists it sharpens the mind the way a whetstone sharpens a blade. The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

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#2

“I suggest you...Fuck."

Even if it was an invitation, I doubt I would have been able to take her up on it just then. Inspiring as she could be in bed, I just didn't have it in me at the moment.”
― Douglas Hulick, Among Thieves

tags: drothe

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#3

“You have to be able to trust someone--At least one person--with your life if it's going to be at all worth living.”
― Douglas Hulick, Among Thieves

tags: inspirational

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#4

“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
― Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

tags: love

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#5

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

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#6

“Strange how deeper the hole the stronger it draws a man. The fascination that lives on the keenest edge, and sparkles on the sharpest point, also gathers in depths of a fall.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

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#7

“That was just how we spoke. Every conversation a game of poker, every line a bet or a raise, a bluff or a call.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

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#8

“She gave me a smile that left me wondering if I wanted to slap it off her, or kiss it.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

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#9

“She met my gaze and the light dazzled, but I wouldn’t look away. “Your choices are keys to doors I cannot see beyond.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

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#10

“Fear helps a man pick his fights. You’re fighting them all, my prince.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

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#11

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#12

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47073 likes

#13

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

19849 likes

#14

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
― Mark Twain

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#15

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, kindness

3297 likes

#16

“We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

tags: broken, clothes, die, empire, king, little, reborn, same, scars, thorns

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#17

“Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

tags: memory, memory-loss

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#18

“A Dark time comes.
My time.
If it offends you.
Stop Me.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

tags: the-broken-empire

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#19

“There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

tags: army, credo, pride, war

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#20

“We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

tags: internal-conflict, philosophy, strength

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#21

“I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

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#22

“Makin once told me that a man who's got no fear is missing a friend.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

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#23

“I watched her backside as she went. I thought perhaps I wouldn't die if I could still find time to watch a well-crafted bottom”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

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#24

“Sometime, it's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

tags: the-broken-empire

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#25

“Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

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#26