Diana Gabaldon Quotes

I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him.

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.

If you've got some to say to Ric Flair, you come say it to me, and I'll make the translation.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes." "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?" "Yes." "Have a biscuit, Potter.

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our job for a boss who has usurped power and is acting as an outlaw government. It is the courage at last to face honestly the truth and reality of what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Your on your on with this one babe." "Coward." "Calling me names isn't going to get me in there." -Ranger and Stephanie

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands up and admits that something is wrong, but doesn't insist on blood, then it's rock n' roll.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

So,” sneered Fudge, recovering himself, “you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?” “Merlin’s beard, no,” said Dumbledore, smiling. “Not unless you are foolish enough to force me to.” “He will not be single-handed!” said Professor McGonagall loudly, plunging her hand inside her robes. “Oh yes he will, Minerva!” said Dumbledore sharply. “Hogwarts needs you!

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.

Go head Taggert. Take your best shot.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy.