Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 4

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already.

That's right-you heard me: dead again already.

I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing phrases like that?

When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices-exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.

Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?"

Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

Let come the forces of night! We will stand!"
"We will get the hell out of here is what we will do," I muttered.

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.

Isana felt her throat tighten.
"We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly.
"We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than any of ours put together.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.

Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.