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The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.


Mercedes Lackey

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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
CLAUDE ARIEN HELVETIUS That’s how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.
MERCEDES LACKEY Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins…
T. RAFAEL CIMINO Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...
T. RAFAEL CIMINO 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 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 A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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 I get my limits from a rational consideration of the consequences of my actions, that's how I determ...
MATT DILLAHUNTY Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON "My door is always open-bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey ...
ROBERT F. SIX I opened my fist to shake your hand, you closed the door and the golden fence.
NORAIN That's my Mercedes. It's my baby.
AARON ROWAND Freedom ends when it enslaves.
CRISTIANE SERRUYA I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky ...
BOBBY BONILLA I thought he was trying to kill me. He's already broken my nose. He's taken a swing at me with a bas...
BRADFORD CARL ROSS When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your n...
JOHN GREEN Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
BILL SIMMONS When the Mac ad campaign was in full swing, I quickened my pace as I went past certain bus stops. My...
ROBERT WEBB And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
MAX L. FORMAN Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
MAX L. FORMAN Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
MAX L. FORMAN At 2-2 in the count, I was trying to shorten up my swing.
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for sta...
NEIL GAIMAN You're literally inviting a sick, germy person to blow her nose at your desk.
ALLISON JANSE Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.
ARIEL GORE I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.
JENNIFER ANISTON Hold your nose to the grindstone
PROVERB Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
JOHN STUART MILL I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm n...
BOBBY BONILLA Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the ...
JOHNNY CARSON We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.
BARACK OBAMA Leanne, would you kindly remove your nose from my ass? It's starting to chafe." - Noelle
KATE BRIAN When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
GEORGE HERBERT It was a swing. Our catcher caught it. Doug Eddings called him out and somewhere along the line, bec...
MIKE SCIOSCIA "Freedom is what happens when we stop sticking our nose into other people's business.
TERENCE T. GORSKI your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. keep fighting. keep loving
LEAH WILSON I kept knocking with my fist.
DOUGLASS YOUNG My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
RAF SIMONS I felt like, when Mercedes touched the ball, she could score at will. What I am most proud of is tha...
AGNES BERENATO You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.
HEINZ GUDERIAN It seems the rejuvenation of the (Mercedes-Benz) product lineup has been quite successful, which mea...
MICHAEL RAAB My family begins with me, your family ends with you.
IPHICRATES My family begins with me, your family ends with you.
IPHICRATES People say ‘dogs who roam in Mercedes are Lucky’, this is your feeling, not the Dog’s!!!
HARRISH SAIRAMAN Can't anyone ever start a fight without all the posturing and cheesy Bond-villain threats? It's not ...
JULIE KAGAWA I feel an army in my fist.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there
SOURCE UNKNOWN You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there.
WINNIE THE POOH You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there.
BILL COSBY You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there.
PROVERB It really is luck if your manuscript ends up at the right place at the right time.
HEATHER NEFF My objective is to win races and world championships as a member of McLaren-Mercedes,
KIMI RAIKKONEN Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
AMERICAN PROVERB His withered fist still knocking at Death's door.
THOMAS SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET It s not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball ...
BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS It s not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball ...
BABE ZAHARIAS Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!
STEPHEN SONDHEIM The value of routine; trusting your swing.
LORII MYERS The work never ends so you really have to do your job and grieve at the same time.
LARRY ROHR There's not any timetable yet for him to swing off a tee or swing at balls.
JIM TRACY At my fingers' ends. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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decreto la peor de las p...
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