Glen Cook quotes - page 2

She was not listening. If she listened she would have to hear uncomfortable truths. (Glen Cook)
The resources would have to come from that absurd wall project. The city was too big to surround effectively. The project could not be justified. It was a tool for transferring the wealth of the state to a few individuals. View quote
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The poor idiot is a living testimonial to the fact that everything takes longer and costs more. Even magic can't get you around that. View quote
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Exact words were of no consequence. At heart the squabble was as old as humanity itself, fug-headed antiques locking horns with omniscient youth. View quote
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Desperate people will do what they must to survive. Only a fool would expect the results to be pretty. View quote
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Dawn comes early when you wish it would not. The hours flash when you want them to drag. View quote
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Sadly, after years of study, I realize that most history may pivot on personal considerations like that, not on the pursuit of ideals dark or shining. View quote
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Time is the most wicked of all villains. View quote
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Like most villains, he was wicked only most of the time and mainly in small-minded ways. View quote
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"Truth is a deadly weapon,” Lady said. "Which is why priests and princes dread it,” I said. View quote
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"She was stronger than the gods who created her?” "Guys, I didn't make this stuff up. Don't ask me to rationalize it. Goblin, you've been everywhere. You ever seen a religion that can't be picked to shreds by any nonbeliever with brains enough to tie his own bootlaces? (Glen Cook)
Hatreds seldom are constrained to rational scales. View quote
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He couldn't handle what it meant to have somebody in love with you. Running away was the only thing he knew how to do. View quote
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Generating rumors is one thing even the most inept armed force does exceedingly well. View quote
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Life is never like a canal, flowing gently through a straightforward and predictable channel. It is more like a mountain brook, zigging and zagging, tearing things up, sometimes going almost dormant before taking an unexpected and turbulent turn. View quote
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Will, Lady. The Will will reign triumphant. My husband had said that often, confident that nothing could resist his will. He had believed that right up to the moment I killed him. View quote
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Simple minds respond to simple answers. View quote
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What do you do when old prophecies come true? I've never met a priest who honestly expected miracles in his own lifetime. For them miracles are like good wine, best when aged. View quote
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You mess with people's religion and you mess with fire. Even people who don't much give a damn. Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational. View quote
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The power to kill becomes the ultimate power in the hands of a man who has no reservations about employing it. View quote
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He was pursuing a running debate with his own guilts and ghosts-unless he was spouting proverbs and aphorisms, most of the meanings fairly obvious but a few convolute and obscure. He was particularly fond of "Fortune smiles. And then betrays.” He just could not get into bed comfortably with the truth that he had made that bed himself. He still had difficulty separating "ought to be” from "the way things really are.”. (Glen Cook)
Every time I see a mirror I'm amazed. I end up wondering who's taken over the outside of me. A disgusting old goat, from the look of him. The kind I used to snicker at when I was twenty. He scares me, Stance. He looks like a dying man. I'm trapped inside him, and I'm not ready to go. View quote
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Good morning. I'm honored but I'm also pressed for time. If you have something to discuss please get to the point. I'm an hour behind schedule and didn't budget time for socializing. View quote
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It was a day ripped full-grown from the womb of despair. View quote
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Seemed to have made peace with the bad times. Some manage that with comparative ease. Others remain crippled for life. Those are not the sort who remain soldiers. They become ex-soldiers and get intimate with wine or poppies. View quote
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