There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.
– Robin Hobb
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- It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else. – Robin Hobb
- There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
- When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. – Erich Fromm
- Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. – Earl Nightingale
- All it takes is rumor…The danger itself is irrelevant. It’s the perception of danger we’re selling. – Sharon Weil
- If a danger threatens you, you threaten that danger too – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger. – Thomm Quackenbush
- Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold. – Lesa Howard
- That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking, what’s your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to? – Neal Stephenson
- Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering. – Sharon Salzberg
- Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby – Agona Apell
- Asking ‘why’ only makes us feel hopeless. Asking ‘how’ points the way forward, and shows us what we must do – Sue Klebold
- But prayer isn’t asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right. – Max Lucado
- You’re not asking me for advice, you’re asking me for permission. – Steve Maraboli
- Ethan: -œI’m not asking you to continue that night.-Karis: -œThen what are you asking?-Ethan: -œFor a whole new night. – Monique DeVere
- When I ask you to be my valentine, I’m not asking you to love me. I’m simply asking you to accept tokens of my love for you. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. – Aristotle
- Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Success is not always equal to profit, Failure is not always equal to loss. – Dr Mohd Nayyer Rahman
- Good is equal to Order While,Evil is equal to FreedomDoes it make sense to you? It does for me. – James Eugeio
- She is a beautiful creature, but beauty doesn’t equal good and it certainly doesn’t equal sane. – Carrie Jones
- We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know. – Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
- We might not be equal in what we know but we are equal in what we do not know. – Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
- We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance. – Anthony Liccione
- Everyone is supposed to be on equal ground and the equal ground is supposed to be based on qualifications. – Sunday Adelaja
- Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man. – Allan Dare Pearce
- If the truth was equal to the lie, and our love was equal to our hatred, we would become absolutely nil persons. – Marieta Maglas Eschatological Regression
- A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He’d probably have to kill her soon. – Robin Hobb
- I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world. – Robin Hobb
- Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. – Robin Hobb
- Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? – Robin Hobb
- Isn’t it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest. – Robin Hobb
- One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one’s actions. – Robin Hobb
- To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group. – Robin Hobb
- The days we shared I alone would remember now.I suddenly felt less real. – Robin Hobb
- As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man’s character. – Robin Hobb
- Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates. – Robin Hobb
- Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey. – Robin Hobb
- Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning. – Robin Hobb