All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.
Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.
He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.
It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.
It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.
Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.
With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds. 'Why?' someone asked him. 'To squeeze out the rain.
You're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today?
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.
I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.
For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.
The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.
I don't really like the gym. I like to fool my body. I run around the beach and then there's scaffolding so I can just do different pulls-ups there.
