Mercedes Lackey quotes - page 2

We have more televangelists per square mile here in this part of the country than I really care to think about. Maybe somebody out there will figure out how to spray for them. (Mercedes Lackey)
Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't. View quote
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To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying. View quote
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One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock. View quote
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In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish. View quote
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The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose. View quote
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There's more than enough seriousness in the world. View quote
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If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across. View quote
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Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer. View quote
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He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them. View quote
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It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities. (Mercedes Lackey)
Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there. View quote
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I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom. View quote
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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying) View quote
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Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure. View quote
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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar. View quote
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Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream. View quote
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Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG! View quote
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Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion-it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble. View quote
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If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it! View quote
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Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong. (Mercedes Lackey)
Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed. View quote
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...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying. View quote
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You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had. View quote
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It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die. View quote
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Mercedes Lackey

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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Novelist
Born: June 24, 1950
Quotes count: 50
Wikipedia: Mercedes Lackey

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