Mortal Quotes - page 4

Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight! (Rick Riordan)
You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal! View quote
Rick Riordan
He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal faces.' There was an uncomfortable silence. 'That sounds... extreme,' Jason ventured. View quote
Rick Riordan
She (Annabeth) put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. I (Percy) moved her fingers to the one spot that grounded me to my mortal life. A thousand volts of electricity seemed to arc through my body. View quote
Rick Riordan
That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature. View quote
Rick Riordan
Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand years, and tower far above our mortal heads. As such they are symbols and keepers of unlimited power, longevity, and timelessness. An untouched forest, studded with trees of all ages, sizes and types, is more than a mysterious, magical place - it is one of the energy reservoirs of nature. Within its boundaries stand ancient and new sentinels, guardians of the universal force which has manifested on the the Earth. . . . View quote
Scott Cunningham
Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude. View quote
Theodor Storm
You're a Dark-Hunter." He kissed her lightly on the lips. "What I am is a man in love with a woman. I want you, Amanda. For the rest of my blessedly short mortal life. I want to wake at dawn with you in my arms and watch our children play and fight. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn't register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you're too daft to know you're mortal? View quote
David Benioff
When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy he could touch, but not put on his shelf. This made her rare. This made her precious. This made him...love her. View quote
J.R. Ward
For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him. (Julie Garwood)
The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal. View quote
Eve Ensler
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings. View quote
Bodhidharma
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach. View quote
Edmond Halley
I grew up playing 'Mortal Kombat' as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well. View quote
Brian Tee
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited. View quote
Beatrice Webb
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy. View quote
Early Wynn
I do feel I'm being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with 'Mortal Kombat.' View quote
Mark Dacascos
My season 2 'Good Wife' wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight. View quote
Matt Czuchry
By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. View quote
Sydney Pollack
Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father? (Zebulon Pike)
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate. View quote
José Martí
On the Day of Resurrection when He Whom God will make manifest cometh unto you, invested with conclusive proofs, ye shall hold His Cause as being devoid of truth, whereas God hath apprised you in the Bayán that no similarity existeth between the Cause of Him Whom God will make manifest and the cause of others. How can anyone besides God reveal a verse such as to overwhelm all mankind? Say, great is God! Who else but Him Whom God will make manifest can spontaneously recite verses which proceed from His Lord - a feat that no mortal man can ever hope to accomplish? View quote
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