Quotes About Inquisitor
So be it.' She faded into silence. I could feel what she wanted to say. She wished to apologise for letting her anger get the better of her, and for sending us here to die, but the word 'sorry' was too alien to an inquisitor's tongue. 'Hyperion?' +Mistress?+ 'Hiljah kah uhtganjen mev tarvahettan.' My laughter carried over the vox. Greet the end with courage. Fenrisian poetry at its blunt best.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
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Total grandeur of a total edifice,Chosen by an inquisitor of structuresFor himself. He stops upon this thresholdAs if the design of all his words takes formAnd frame from thinking and is realized.
~ Wallace Stevens
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Yves G. Bonnard, archivero jefe, alias el Poderoso Oz, alias el Gran Inquisidor, alias el Anticristo.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
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The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.
~ Emily Dickinson
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There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.
~ Frank Howard Clark
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The Inquisitor waited for silence. "Do you believe in anything?" "Not if I can help it. Belief alone is nothing to be proud of, Inquisitor. Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.
~ Joe Abercrombie
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The Arch Lector closed his eyes. Crushing news, especially for him, but Orso could have sworn he saw a wry smile at the corner of the old Inquisitor`s mouth. 'Body found floating by the docks,' he murmured.
~ Joe Abercrombie
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Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhere at the lowest level of the House Absolute, so we have each of us in the dustiest cellars of our minds a counter at which we strive to repay the debts of the past with the debased currency of the present.
~ Gene Wolfe
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Naturally all the glory belonged to the victim and all the shame to the Inquisitor
~ George Orwell
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He was the tormentor, he was the protector, he was the inquisitor, he was the friend
~ George Orwell
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Interrogation...was the highest art of the inquisitor.
~ Jonathan Kirsch
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countless thousands before him. The last of the inquisitors
~ Jonathan Kirsch
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There was even a third person to deal with, as far as anything that took place in the Sistine Chapel. He was the official Inquisitor of Heresies, a fanatical Dominican friar named Giovanni Rafanelli, who had the right even to interrupt priests in the middle of their sermons if he found any of their statements not 100 percent in line with the Vatican.
~ Benjamin Blech
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The Christian church described by the Grand Inquisitor is the same church pilloried by Nietzsche. Childish, sanctimonious, patriarchal, servant of the state, that church is everything rotten still objected to by modern critics of Christianity.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
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Il n'avait pas un doute sur l'éventualité prochaine de cette conception, et tout ce qu'il jugeait lui être hostile, Sénécal s'acharnait dessus, avec des raisonnements de géomètre et une bonne foi d'inquisiteur
~ Gustave Flaubert
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The Inquisitor stared at him. "Your Highness, where is Iolanthe Seabourne?" Right here in this room. He was on guard, very, very much on guard. Yet he still felt his lips part and form the shape necessary to pronounce the first syllable of the truth. "I thought we had already established that I have neither interest in nor knowledge of your elemental mage." "Why are you protecting her, Your Highness?" Because she is mine. You will have her over my dead body.
~ Sherry Thomas
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Duro oficio el del inquisidor, tiene que golpear a los más débiles, y cuando mayor es su debilidad.
~ Umberto Eco
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Indeed." Will let his cutlery clatter onto his plate. "The Consul? Breaking up our breakfast time? Whatever next? The Inquisitor over for tea? Picnics with the Silent Brothers?" "Duck pies in the park," said Jem under his breath, and he and Will smiled at each other, just a flash, before the door opened and the Consul swept it.
~ Cassandra Clare
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Well, not in this case. He reached into the Inquisitor and he twisted ..." Clary shuddered. "There was a lot of blood." "Like a special bonus for you," Jace said to Simon. Simon ignored this.
~ Cassandra Clare
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Alec drew his hand back with a low whistle. "The Inquisitor meant business." "Of course she did. I'm a dangerous criminal. Or hadn't you heard?" Jace heard the acid in his own tone, saw Alec flinch, and was meanly, momentarily, glad. "She didn't call you a criminal, exactly..." "No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nun
~ Cassandra Clare
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He (Jace) glanced down at his bound hands. His wrists and shoulders had gone from aching to hard, stabbing pain, but he didn't wince as the inquisitor regarded one of the blades, named it Jophiel, and plunged it into the polished wooden floorboards at her feet. He waited, but nothing happened. "Boom," he said eventually. "Was something supposed to happen there?" ~pg.303~
~ Cassandra Clare
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You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor, the Bishop reminded him. With a smile. The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn't talk to me.
~ Orson Scott Card
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The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest, nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared, as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape, neither by diversion nor by noise, neither at work nor at play, neither by day nor by night.
~ Daniel B. Smith
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