Who Originally Said 'Wolves Don'T Concern Themselves With The Opinions Of Sheep'?

Another great Tywin quote. Simple and yet to understand it no need to be an expert in the history of Westeros or in the politics of all the houses. This is a universal concept, even if not too pleasant. It is also the antithesis to what Ned Stark wanted to do. As opposed to Ned who cared greatly for the honor and the right thing to do, often based on the will of the gods as well as of men, here we have someone who doesn't even find laughable the sentimentality of all that. And in fact it is exactly this that is at the root of his conflict with Ned. And, even if in the show there are very few scenes between the two of them, it is the way the show developer chose to express two extremely different worlds and two extremely different ways of perceiving reality. In short, it's not just a nice quote; it's also one of the main themes of the first seasons of the show.

Do you know who said that? I chased down the source for you and it appears to be from Theodore Roosevelt’s autobiography from 1910 (competition for jealousy). I have seen this quote mistakenly attributed to C.S. Lewis or even Confucius but the quote as it was originally written (or re-written) is classic. In fact it’s a concept that psychology has been able to confirm in relation to social comparison theory but it’s also been written beautifully over 100 years ago by someone else. I actually really like this quote in The Midnight Library where the characters live out alternate lives of comparison to each other.

Caleb carries “Black Sheep” on his shoulders for good reason. He’s not destined to be a hero or special in any way. He’s a somewhat middle-aged, somewhat out-of-shape man trying to learn how to be a werewolf in a world where most werewolves have been training from childhood. It makes for some visceral fight scenes, and the narrative often points out his disadvantage in clever ways, such as the clash between his human-style fighting and traditional wolf-style fighting. The protagonist’s human relationships contrast with other werewolves’ dismissal of and superiority over humans, and help him gain insight into problems the other wolves cannot solve with brute force. And the problems the pack faces are often supernatural in nature. The title ‘Black Sheep’ is perfect for Caleb as he is the aberration in the pack that highlights the system’s faults. Caleb’s journey from Black Sheep to reluctant leader is an excellent read as we witness all of his bad decisions along the way. There’s little to admire in Caleb’s braveness as often it’s based on spite or of purely self-interest, but he is a unique and refreshing protagonist to urban fantasy.

I’m operating under the assumption that The Noetic Icons of old is not directly based on a published book (although this could change), and its massive and rapid success will likely inspire someone to write a book based off of it within the next year or so ( judging by the sheer number of already excellent new webcomics that feature similar logos, “of [blank]”-style titles and art style). Other media (novels, video games, etc) will likely approach The Noetic Icons’ creator to write a novel that focuses on a side character to The Noetic Icons’ comic book in the near future. The comic book itself is the solid core of this new modern IP, and the rest of the media will branch off of it.

Honestly, I come for the action scenes, the story is just connective tissue between all the transformation battles. The author has a background in martial arts, so it really shows. A fight in a rainy courtyard was so well described that I could actually follow along and it looked cool. Overall, the story follows a stolen relic and such, but the real reason I keep reading is for the next animalistic, viscerally engaging battle.

I bookmark quotes. This list will include quotes that you can use as your profile pic. Yes, that easy. Huxley is one of my favorite authors. The following quotes have been collected for you to use as you see fit. Some of the quotes are direct pulls from his writing while others are merely paraphrased and included in various quote compilations. I have included my thoughts as to whether a quote is a direct pull or not after each quote. Huxley: "The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." A great line to pull out during debate, for it encapsulates Huxley’s view wonderfully. The other quote listed above is similarly sound for use as it constitutes a perfect rebuttal to someone who confuses science with mere opinion. That it comes from Huxley’s essays and lectures rather than from some insubstantial online quote book makes it that much better to use. A lot of these quotes float around, including this: 'Try to learn something about everything and everything about something'. It looks and reads well enough to have been printed on the cover of a paperback or included in a set of lectures notes on Victorian literature, and I’ve certainly seen it attributed to Huxley in such contexts. Another favourite of skeptics is the section which describes the parasitic wasp in exacting detail and then uses this as a basis to discuss the problems of suffering in nature and religion. Again, the sentiment is true to form for Huxley, but as ever the catchiest phrases and most evocative imagery are prone to being somewhat amplified in quotation. As before, another good quote that is often attributed to Huxley is: 'It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end as superstitions'. Again, I suspect this to be a rather condensed version of a longer quote or passage. In terms of pasting to a profile, or to create a banner, it’s probably best to stick with the two quoted at the top. For a list of “things that Huxley could have said”, it’s generally okay to use these really nice-sounding paraphrases, provided you acknowledge the uncertainty somewhere. (As I said, I love these quotes for lots of reasons, not least that they force me to adopt a healthy skepticism to pretty ideas – a commodity in short supply.)

Wait, is this a trick question? Aesop. I knew that. People know who wrote Cinderella, even though it’s a piece of folklore and there are many versions of it. The Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault get most of the credit for Fairy Tales, but the stories of Aesop are fables told by animals in order to teach a moral at the end of the story. I’d have to say that The Tortoise and the Hare is probably his most famous fable. This is all pretty straightforward stuff and I’m a bit surprised that so much discussion is going on about it. Usually the simplest answer to a question is the correct one. Yes, there were probably many versions of this story before Aesop told it, but he’s the one who gets credit for it in every single collection of fables that I’ve ever read. In most references to Aesop and his fables there is little to no debate about who it was that told the stories in the first place. It’s just given.

This is really a story about trauma and recovery. Yes, it’s a fantasy story, but if you take away all the magical elements, it’s a story about a girl whose village and home was destroyed, and she was held captive. And a guy who’s been carrying around the weight of leadership, and has failed before. Their journey together is of them triggering each other’s wounds, learning how to deal with each other’s wounds, and slowly gaining trust of each other. The process of healing the land mirrors their healing of each other. Thus many of the key scenes are not the big battles but rather the quiet moments of vulnerability where one or other of them shares a memory from their past or admits a fear. These are plot crucial as is the fantasy crisis that provides the external conflict to test them. But the real substance of the story are these moments of quiet victory over despair. This is why the romance is so convincing, it is not just a case of two people falling for each other. Instead it is based on a mutual process of healing each other of their respective traumas.

The magic system shows who’s main. The only people with ‘True Bonds’ with their wolves are able to use the advanced magic shown in the climax. This includes Lyra, Kaelan, and Varek, as well as the corrupted version held by Malakar. Everyone else either has a weaker ‘True Bond’ or no magic at all. By the world’s own power scaling, this makes the three mentioned, as well as the villain, the main characters. Their connections to the very source of magic in the world are key to the conflict, and the narrative maintains a hard, in-world differentiation between the two.

For another example, let’s consider music. In the last 50 years or so, song lyrics have done more to keep this phrase in the popular consciousness than all novels combined. As I noted in an earlier post, we find this phrase in a wide array of musical genres: folk ballads, power metal songs, New Age music. The phrase has probably reached more people recently through songs like these than through reading words written by Keats or Shelley themselves. And, whereas those authors’ words were ‘whispered’ to readers in books, today the musical versions carry the phrase to audiences everywhere. In each of these genres the phrase conveys different emotions: melancholy in country songs, mystery in hard rock, freedom in New Age music. Thus today the phrase is interpreted largely by the media of popular culture, rather than by literature itself. Trying to follow the purely literary origins of this phrase would be to ignore the river in order to seek out the spring that supplies it. The river itself is where the phrase is living today.