Jim Butcher Quotes

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

I always hear, 'Oh, she's really beautiful.' I'd die to hear, 'Oh, she's really smart.' I'm not as dumb as I look.

Usually, the loudest in the room is the weakes. The quietest man in the room, who is being very observant, is the smartest and the strongest.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

Once a date asked me what I do, so I said that my company empowers women in their dating lives. Her response? 'Aw, that's so cute!' Cute is how my babysitter described me when I was 7 years old. Simple fix: Replace cute with hot and he'll feel like James Bond.

You can't just be a wimp and then a year and a half or two years later decide to not be a wimp anymore. Because people will always treat you like a wimp once they have decided that's what you are. You have to be strong and tough and intelligent and smart and kind of plan out what you're going to say and know who you are. So that people will get that right away. Because then they're always going to be great to you. And they're always going to treat you with respect.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

The strong and the weak cannot keep company.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. But not strength, not particularly-he is smart, but not strong. Only strong enough to carry me.

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he's loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness. Franz would never give Sabina orders. He would never command her, as Tomas had, to lay the mirror on the floor and walk back and forth on it naked. Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders. There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.