Quotes - Ryan Dempsey (ryandempsey) (Manchester, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-17 of 17

#1

“I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized."

Everyone in the room stared at him.

"I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: assholes, bondsmagi, cauterizing, tongues, torture

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#2

“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

tags: inspirational, lord-of-chaos, military, military-quote, one-more-dance, robert-jordan

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#3

“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

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#4

“Nobody walks a difficult path without stumbling now and again. It didn’t break you when you fell. That’s the important part.”
― Robert Jordan, Towers of Midnight

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#5

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love, respect

3676 likes

#6

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: spring

2455 likes

#7

“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, love, tolstoy

1648 likes

#8

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea

3691 likes

#9

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

1300 likes

#10

“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: humanity

1213 likes

#11

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom

5503 likes

#12

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong

1591 likes

#13

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
― Leo Tolstoy

1460 likes

#14

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: bad, liar

1455 likes

#15

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

12538 likes

#16

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

tags: inspirational

847 likes

#17

“We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

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