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Quotes About Devotion

I didn't forget a day of you either.
~ Emma Donoghue
You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay.
~ Emma Forrest
Accepting the presidency, Barack introduces my best friend of sixteen years, the love of my life, Michelle Obama and I think I will pass out. That, right there, is love in action.
~ Emma Forrest
Pray definitely for yourself every day or you will get nowhere.
~ Emmet Fox
You and your robins!
~ Enid Blyton
Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.
~ Eoin Colfer
Of course I saved you, she said. I couldn't do without you. And because she was happy and flushed with magic, Holly leaned down and kissed Artemis, magic sparking around the contact like tiny fireworks.
~ Eoin Colfer
This is what love does, he realized, and in that moment he understood why Artemis had kidnapped a fairy to get the money to find his father. Love makes everything else seem inconsequential
~ Eoin Colfer
Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense.
~ Eoin Colfer
Meervoudige persoonlijkheid, waandenkbeelden, dwangneurose. Ik heb ze allemaal, maar ik ben vooral gek op jou. - Orion/Artemis
~ Eoin Colfer
Oh, I'm crazy, all right. I do have plenty of psychoses," said Orion cheerily. "Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.
~ Eoin Colfer
Passion is the enemy of efficiency.
~ Eoin Colfer
How do I love thee?" wondered Orion. "Let me see. I love thee passionately and eternally . . . obviously eternally— that goes without saying." Holly blinked sweat from her eyes. "Is he serious?" she called over her shoulder to Foaly. "Oh, absolutely," said the centaur, his voice juddering along with the pod's motion. "If he asks you to look for birthmarks, say no immediately.
~ Eoin Colfer
Holly... Je hebt me wederom gered.' … 'Natuurlijk heb ik je gered,' zei ze. 'Ik kan toch niet zonder je?
~ Eoin Colfer
The gods do not exists, and even if they exist they do not trouble themselves about people, and we have nothing in common with them. The piety and devotion to the gods that the majority of people invoke is a lie devised by swindlers and con men and, if you can believe it, by legislators, to keep criminals in line by putting the fear of God into them.
~ Epictetus
For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred!
~ Epictetus
Whatever your vocation, pursue it wholeheartedly. Consider, choose, and commit.
~ Epictetus
Whatever your mission, stick by it as if it were a law and you would be committing sacrilege to betray it.
~ Epictetus
But what master, I wonder, do you yourself serve? Money? Women? Boys? The emperor or one of his subordinates? It has to be one of them, or you wouldn't fret about such things.
~ Epictetus
And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves. [15] And, being attached to many things, we are weighed down and dragged along with them.
~ Epictetus
There's a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates. —General George S. Patton Jr.
~ Eric Blehm
The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole -- the church, party, nation -- and not to his fellow true believer.
~ Eric Hoffer
Some people are born to spend their lives catching up; and they are as a rule the passionate ones.
~ Eric Hoffer
The danger of the fanatic to the development of a movement is that he cannot settle down. Once victory has been won and the new order begins to crystallize, the fanatic becomes an element of strain and disruption.
~ Eric Hoffer