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Mercedes Lackey

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That’s how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.
MERCEDES LACKEY Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with...
MERCEDES LACKEY If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)
MERCEDES LACKEY Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happen...
MERCEDES LACKEY In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable,...
MERCEDES LACKEY You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.
MERCEDES LACKEY If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
MERCEDES LACKEY The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student ...
MERCEDES LACKEY It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good a...
MERCEDES LACKEY If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.
MERCEDES LACKEY Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becom...
MERCEDES LACKEY To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to b...
MERCEDES LACKEY If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good id...
MERCEDES LACKEY It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it...
MERCEDES LACKEY These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them...
MERCEDES LACKEY There's always going to be fighting. People of honor have to be a part of that, because if they aren...
MERCEDES LACKEY Why should you find a mind attractive enough to put up with a crippled, aging body? I'm half again y...
MERCEDES LACKEY Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the...
MERCEDES LACKEY Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the o...
MERCEDES LACKEY The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
MERCEDES LACKEY Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall o...
MERCEDES LACKEY I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.
MERCEDES LACKEY Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It ...
MERCEDES LACKEY Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.
MERCEDES LACKEY Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.
MERCEDES LACKEY Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier dis...
MERCEDES LACKEY The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the ...
MERCEDES LACKEY I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system th...
MERCEDES LACKEY Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he sai...
MERCEDES LACKEY This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased...
MERCEDES LACKEY Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.
MERCEDES LACKEY Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen '...
MERCEDES LACKEY ...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.
MERCEDES LACKEY It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentia...
MERCEDES LACKEY Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
MERCEDES LACKEY If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "dan...
MERCEDES LACKEY . . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elabor...
MERCEDES LACKEY One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical ...
MERCEDES LACKEY [Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been th...
MERCEDES LACKEY Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. "Safe, true, ...
MERCEDES LACKEY [...] what the hell do I do about a broken lifebond?"

He shook his head, obviously at a l...
MERCEDES LACKEY Let it be known you are a lackey, a crony...
KAREN CASON People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to g...
RUSSELL HOBAN People dont see you for what you think, they see you for what you say
SIMPLETON There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence...
JOHNNY UNITAS It's the underperformance of Mercedes that is holding the whole empire back. If you get Mercedes rig...
GAREL RHYS If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.
ROBERT REDFORD Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLIN do tou think i would speak for you? i dont even know your language
JUDD NELSON He (Lackey) had a base open ... and I was trying to resist the urge to think that he was gong to wal...
PAUL KONERKO I'd like it to stay a quaint little town,
CONNIE MILLER I think Chrysler lost a lot of market share, which has not been the case for Mercedes.
DAVID HEALY Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.
SARAH DESSEN I just dont know how...to think less. If you know how, then teach me...
AISHAH MADADIY You can now get a Mercedes or BMW for the price of a Taurus,
STEVE JOBS Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
FREDERICK POLLOCK Mercedes is a pretty princess
MELISSA HORACEK When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
GEORGE HERBERT Contrary to what you may think, when O’Sah told me about kytaen, that I’d be meeting one, I didn...
GISELLE SIMLETT You have more to fear from those who think they know you,Than from those who know they dont.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
 DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR Eat cheese and do a u-turn but if you dont like cheese dont eat cheese and do a u-turn
KATIE BAVISTER When you see yourself struggling, keep pushing. It shows you are doing something. Dont give up, you ...
MLUNGISI SIMELANE Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
CORMAC MCCARTHY People think that they are untouchable, but you will probably find that there lives are built around...
GARY F EVANS... No person alive today is smarter than you.If you dont think that is the case,ask the dead.
FERNAND ROBERT RIVARD Show me the legacy of a lesbian couple.
SUZANNE STROH the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant y...
ELIZABETH SCOTT That's the real fast Mercedes, Don't print that -- you can't say that!
BRETT BERGMAN That's the real fast Mercedes, ... Don't print that -- you can't say that!
SERGIO GARCIA If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost.
PAUL WASHER A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.
EOIN COLFER Was a glimpse of his cock worth a Mercedes?
EDMUND WHITE Every time you say you dont believe in fairies, a fairy dies.
PETER PAN YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise...embrace the entit...
KAIDEN BLAKE Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.
SEBASTIAN THRUN It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit...
MARILYN MONROE I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.
JENNIFER ANISTON Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLIN I can't repeat (what Lackey said), but I'm not going to have anybody talk to me that way. I'm not tr...
JASON KENDALL You cant find outside what you dont have inside.
CARL HAMMERSCHLAG Anything that you dont overcome will eventualy overtake you.
MICHAEL STRONG John Lackey is probably the biggest story. He was terrific for eight innings.
MIKE SCIOSCIA I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about f...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Love is a stranger and dont Live here,, and it dont even Visit
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) That's my Mercedes. It's my baby.
AARON ROWAND Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful…
You dont have to be like everybody ...
TAYLOR SWIFT If you dont stand for something you fall for everything.
MALCOLM X How can someone ask you to show your full potential when their actions bring out the worst in you.Fo...
TANICA S HALL Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
JOHNNY UNITAS Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
JOHNNY UNITAS You dont have to live forever just live.
NATALIE BABBITT Dont know why am different from other people, but i surely know that i think of the long run, i dont...
OLASOT He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
PHILLIPINE PROVERB I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
GEORGE ELIOT He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rival...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
OSCAR WILDE He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained fai...
ANTHONY POWELL

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That’s how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.
MERCEDES LACKEY Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with...
MERCEDES LACKEY If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)
MERCEDES LACKEY Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happen...
MERCEDES LACKEY In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable,...
MERCEDES LACKEY You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.
MERCEDES LACKEY If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
MERCEDES LACKEY The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student ...
MERCEDES LACKEY It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good a...
MERCEDES LACKEY If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.
MERCEDES LACKEY Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becom...
MERCEDES LACKEY To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to b...
MERCEDES LACKEY If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good id...
MERCEDES LACKEY It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it...
MERCEDES LACKEY These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them...
MERCEDES LACKEY There's always going to be fighting. People of honor have to be a part of that, because if they aren...
MERCEDES LACKEY Why should you find a mind attractive enough to put up with a crippled, aging body? I'm half again y...
MERCEDES LACKEY Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the...
MERCEDES LACKEY Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the o...
MERCEDES LACKEY The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
MERCEDES LACKEY Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall o...
MERCEDES LACKEY I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.
MERCEDES LACKEY Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It ...
MERCEDES LACKEY Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.
MERCEDES LACKEY Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.
MERCEDES LACKEY Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier dis...
MERCEDES LACKEY The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the ...
MERCEDES LACKEY I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system th...
MERCEDES LACKEY Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he sai...
MERCEDES LACKEY This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased...
MERCEDES LACKEY Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.
MERCEDES LACKEY Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen '...
MERCEDES LACKEY ...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.
MERCEDES LACKEY It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentia...
MERCEDES LACKEY Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
MERCEDES LACKEY If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "dan...
MERCEDES LACKEY . . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elabor...
MERCEDES LACKEY One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical ...
MERCEDES LACKEY [Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been th...
MERCEDES LACKEY Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. "Safe, true, ...
MERCEDES LACKEY [...] what the hell do I do about a broken lifebond?"

He shook his head, obviously at a l...
MERCEDES LACKEY We had been following him for over two years. He was doing a lot of damage.
CARL LACKEY The few dens we've been to we've seen the tracks. It looks like they came out, saw the 15 to 20 feet...
CARL LACKEY When they run out of food, then they start breaking into people's homes and moving into urban areas.
CARL LACKEY You can't blame the bear. They've probably been hitting those apple orchards for 100 years. Apples a...
CARL LACKEY The biggest advantage to these signs is that they increase awareness. Whether or not people slow dow...
CARL LACKEY The paid staff shouldn't be the only ones who minister. Everyone works here, and that's been a very ...
JIM LACKEY He had a couple of uncharacteristic shots. Jacob, I really thought he would be one of those guys tha...
DAVID LACKEY We were not going for any weird mortgage situations. We wanted a fixed-rate mortgage. Even though ba...
JUSTINE LACKEY [Rodrigo] Lopez pitched well, but we've got to find a way to beat guys like that to get to where we ...
JOHN LACKEY All of the stuff in here took me years to collect.
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ANNA MERCEDES A mean, tipsy, powerful, rotten-egg lady.
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MERCEDES RUEHL I was prepared; Mum wasn't.
MERCEDES CORBY We can think of changes to the oceans locally, but in terms of human health we have to look globally...
MERCEDES PASCUAL Queda la palabra -Yo- Para esa,
por triste, por su atroz soledad,
decreto la peor de las p...
MARíA MERCEDES CARRANZA Beauty without intelligence is an illusion that is close to disenchantment. It is like a fairy that ...
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