Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am.
[Will]'d barely been asleep a few minutes when Halt's voice woke him. 'Will? Are you asleep?'. . . 'I was,' he said, a little indignantly. 'I'm not now. ' 'Good,' Halt replied, a trifle smugly. 'Serves you right.
Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently they constantly feel the need to get the better of their masters. They’re bad enough when they’re learning. But when they graduate, they become unbearable. [The Kings of Clonmel Pg. 268]
But. . . what if I mistime it?" Gilan smiled widely. "Well, in that case, I'll probably lop your head off your shoulders. " Horace and Gilan
You're dropping the bow hand as you release," he called, although Halt certainly wasn't. His mentor looked around, saw him, and replied pithily, "I believe your grandmother needs lessons in sucking eggs.
All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?' 'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.
Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory and in the eyes of those who see it.
. . . Good leaders wait to be called and they give up their power when they are no longer needed. Selfish men and fools put themselves first and keep their power until someone throws them out. It is no good to have a way where selfish men and fools fight with each other to be leaders, while the good ones watch.
In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still. . . In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.
He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.