Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.
Jim Butcher
Related You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An en... PATRICK NESS A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect... EARL NIGHTINGALE Hundreds of harsh words dosen't give pain. But, the silence of a loving heart gives more pain VINAYAN I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was prob... ERIN GRUWELL For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of hear... BENJAMIN WATSON If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil ... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN May God gives you power to accomplish all the great things you were destiny for. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I wish we were all naked all the time. I have always believed it's what's underneath that counts. If... CELINE DION You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and ... BASHAR AL-ASSAD Being stuck serves a spiritual purpose. It's a bountiful harvest for transformation to occur. It tel... DANA ARCURI The other silver lining to the Paradise Inn project, it gives all of us a chance to visit the lesser... ERIN SIMONSON Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is su... ABDU'L-BAHA But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. A... HANS URS VON BALTHASAR We were all kind of like - our jaws dropped - like, wow. I think he was smarter than people gave him... JEFF SKIDMORE You keep your Power Glove off of her. ... The Wizard FRED SAVAGE We were uncomfortable with it from the beginning because we felt like we were, I guess our heart was... DUSTIN KENSRUE You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you ... JAMES BALDWIN You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you ... JAMES BALDWIN All over the planet women were being tormented, yet if you took sexism seriously, you were a bore, a... J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Nature is not modified by us. The Sun ,the moon, rain ,air ,human body, animals,flowers,........are ... KOWSALAPATHY The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of powe... WILLIAM HAGUE Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circu... THEODORE PARKER All of the areas of the game that looked weak for us before were strong. Our goaltender was great. T... CRAIG MACTAVISH We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds. DENIS HACHEY Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human be... ROSA PARKS Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were her... DON MIGUEL RUIZ Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing mor... CAITLIN MORAN This road trip, I think, gives us a lot of confidence. They were all tough games. RON WILSON Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposi... HOWARD BARKER As you get to know what takes you away from life, you have more moments throughout your day where yo... MARY O'MALLEY That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left. R.J. SCOTT Being infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. I... HOLLY BLACK There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a forc... J.K. ROWLING Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet. JAMES JOYCE when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy mo... C.S. LEWIS High blood pressure, Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension, Depression, Substance abuse, Obesity, STDs - all... TAMARA AW All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ... MAYA ANGELOU All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more ... MAYA ANGELOU Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off ... JIM BUTCHER You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnifice... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the lov... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all... TAMORA PIERCE If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental. CAMILA ALVES All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective w... ANTHONY ROBBINS The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our... WILLIAM HAZLITT They're sensational! HARRY STYLES If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly. ANUJ SOMANY While majority find business in berating the spoilt brat “Problem” for distressing and disturbin... ANUJ SOMANY To be Thankful to someone who has helped change your life for ever is a small consolation for what t... GARY F EVANS... I need to learn bigger words and do those (things). GREAT APE Being loved continuously when you believe that you're unlovable is like throwing salt on a wound. It... CHRISTA BLACK It's always nice to be voted and respected by your teammates. As long as you keep being the same per... ANDRA DAVIS Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something... C. JOYBELL C. Being born-again Christian gives God the opportunity to gradually change your heart, mind, and thoug... SUNDAY ADELAJA Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot c... GARTH BROOKS If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary on... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary onl... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of ... CLIVE BARKER Here is a list of fearful things: The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings, The rabid bite of t... CLIVE BARKER You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all; you give up on your dreams befor... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. ... HENRY CLOUD Let go of all your pain. May your heart be open to healing. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, ... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Our mornings were never "rise and shine." They were "rise and fight." They were loud and ravaging. T... MALAK EL HALABI Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. ARTHUR MILLER To surrender our control is to become vulnerable to pain, but within that vulnerability there is pow... LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS There's a bit of kitten in all of us. ANTHONY T. HINCKS Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon. MARY PETTIBONE POOLE Romantic love is one of the most powerful of all human experiences. It is definitely more powerful t... HELEN FISHER Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressin... TOM ROBBINS My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I... MAGGIE ROWE When you're hitting everybody's more relaxed and everything comes a little more natural. We're getti... BRIAN BREWER Did you say all that you meant to Before the curtain closed? Or did you feel so much more<... MARGO T. ROSE The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of mil... WILLIAM HAZLITT But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference.... KENN KAUFMAN Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so... RENE DESCARTES Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the f... RAY MANZAREK If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at ... DAN RATHER If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at... DAN RATHER If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at... DAN RATHER All in all, I think they were just a bit more desperate than we were. AL WESTOVER This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you ... JAMES HOWE All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your supe... ALBERT SPEER It was like being shot at by arrows in the chest, which when taken out would cause more pain than be... CHIRAG TULSIANI To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Channel your energy into your God-given purpose. Being out of a job gives you all the time you need ... SUNDAY ADELAJA I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is pu... BARRY DILLER After the election November 7, from the point of view of the citizens, ... all votes were equal, but... FRANK MYERS The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want ... RAM DASS The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you wan... RAM DASS Does it bother you, me being half naked all the time? STEPHENIE MEYER Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies
on a limited set of ... NIDO QUBEIN True navigation begins in the human heart. It's the most important map of all. ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY The Vampires have a plan to take over the world?" I asked. I felt a bit dumb, gasping in surprise at... EMILY MCKAY Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, "I am of no value", is wrong. Absolutely wrong. Y... DALAI LAMA Maybe. We're all equals at the dark gate, no? The sands run for us all. Life is but a flicker shouti... GLEN COOK I will cover minor and major human settlements equally, because most of those which were important i... ROBIN A.H. WATERFIELD Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating th... ROALD DAHL Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded in... NANCY GIBBS
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Like, a lot of them, broken out on cloths, being cleaned, leane... JIM BUTCHER There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy. JIM BUTCHER On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make th... JIM BUTCHER But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just becau... JIM BUTCHER I am disturbed by the presence of inordinate levels of coincidence JIM BUTCHER She pressed the rest of her clothes into my hands and said, "Don't do anything weird with them." JIM BUTCHER You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated. JIM BUTCHER There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic. JIM BUTCHER All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we ar... JIM BUTCHER Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?" The ... JIM BUTCHER The world always thinks that the destruction of a physical vessel is victory,” he said quietly. �... JIM BUTCHER beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy. JIM BUTCHER You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me. JIM BUTCHER Never touch my brother on his fucking birthday. JIM BUTCHER Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, "Wait a minute.... We're his flunkies." "Y... JIM BUTCHER Pansy," Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk li... JIM BUTCHER You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know... JIM BUTCHER Let's get something clear up front. I'm not Harry Dresden. Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-go... JIM BUTCHER Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked. I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she ca... JIM BUTCHER I realized then what had happened. She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into g... JIM BUTCHER Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her. Gggrrrr r... JIM BUTCHER A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning.... JIM BUTCHER Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evapor... JIM BUTCHER A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. "Get more away... JIM BUTCHER Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with styl... JIM BUTCHER I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd sett... JIM BUTCHER Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head. JIM BUTCHER Stop," Kincaid said in a calm voice. "Unclench." "Unclench what?" Murphy demanded. "Unclen... JIM BUTCHER Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey m... JIM BUTCHER And it's deadly to us. We can inspire lust, but it's just a shadow. An illusion. Love is a dangerous... JIM BUTCHER