quotes about Dungeons
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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
-- Abraham LincolnSource : George Haven Putnam (2008). “Abraham Lincoln (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.260, ReadHowYouWant.com
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It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and a candle and lock him away, and he will know more about what's going on in today's world with the Word of God than all the pundits in Washington.
-- Adrian Rogers -
No interruptions, stereos pumpin from the dungeon, coming live from Flatbush Junction
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In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.
-- China Mieville -
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I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.
-- David Benioff -
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.
-- David Berlinski -
Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
-- Gary GygaxSource : "Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax" by David Kushner, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.
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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.
-- George Haven Putnam -
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Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
-- Jean Genet -
One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner,
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
-- Jesse Jackson -
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My worries always lead to dungeons; I can't imagine a worse thing than to be imprisoned for the rest of one's life, especially with so few years to enjoy what little there is.
-- Lauren DeStefanoSource : Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
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I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
-- Lev GrossmanSource : Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.
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Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?
-- Lilith Saintcrow -
In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence...
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
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In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?
-- Robert Fisk -
It’s terrible to lie in chains, To rot in dungeon deep, But it’s still worse, when you are free To sleep, and sleep, and sleep.
-- Taras Shevchenko -
Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.
-- Ted DekkerSource : Ted Dekker (2008). “Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three)”, p.305, Thomas Nelson Inc
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I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons.
-- Thomas Middleditch -
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It’s terrible to lie in chains, To rot in dungeon deep, But it’s still worse, when you are free To sleep, and sleep, and sleep.
-- Taras ShevchenkoSource : Taras Shevchenko (1964). “Selected works; poetry and prose”