When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.
– Mercedes Lackey
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- You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It’s that discovery that makes a marriage work. – Mercedes Lackey
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- Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. – Mercedes Lackey
- Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions. – Mercedes Lackey
- I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. – Mercedes Lackey
- If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. – Mercedes Lackey
- Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion-”it’s usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble. – Mercedes Lackey
- Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive. – Mercedes Lackey
- [Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn’t remember another time in his life when he’d been this angry and hadn’t hit something. – Mercedes Lackey
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- Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren’t the one to put it there. – Mercedes Lackey
- Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth. – Mercedes Lackey
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- I’m tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone. – Mercedes Lackey
- …Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying. – Mercedes Lackey
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- In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. – Margaret Thatcher
- If they say, it can’t be done, Ask, -˜Why not?’ It can be done. It will be done! – Lailah Gifty Akita
- If it must be enjoyed, then it must be done. And if it must be done, then it must be done well. If it is done well, it is enjoyed well. – Israelmore Ayivor
- How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? – John F Kerry
- To sit down means to calm down without rush and fuss, stop and reflect, analyze all pros and cons, count all possible merits and faults – Sunday Adelaja
- She was a woman without a family. A woman without a pack. A woman alone. – Chudney Thomas
- Falling in love with a woman’s body is lust, with a woman’s mind is sense, with a woman’s heart is virtue, and with a woman’s soul is wisdom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Just as Adam produced Woman without a woman, the Virgin produced the Second Adam without a man. – Atom Tate
- Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done is done. – William Shakespeare
- You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it. – Joseph Campbell
- Ask of your eyes to seeonly to seek love.Ask of your mouth to speakonly to utter words of love.Ask of your hands to feelif only to touch the lover. – Kamand Kojouri
- Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. – Yann Martel
- The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done. – Charles ens
- What needs to be done must be done. With grace, it will be done. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day. – Evelyn Waugh
- Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing. – Liu Cixin
- Why this fuss about understanding women?! It’s so simple. All we want is everything, no compromises. – Shweta Bhatnagar
- Oh don’t be such a fuss pot,- said the fairy, -œor I’ll call you Fussy Pants, instead of Silly Pants! – Julie B Campbell
- Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much – Galen Beckett
- The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about. – SA Tawks
- I don’t believe in a lot of baggage. It’s such a nuisance. Life’s too short to fuss with it. And it isn’t really necessary – Hugh Lofting