Hax Quotes

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

..a new baby is not uninterrupted bliss. It's joy mixed with terror, fatigue, depression, intense feelings of helplessness, loneliness and inadequacy. And poop.

My mom used to get really upset at what she perceived as my half-assing,’ reads one splendid anonymous comment on a Washington Post article by the advice columnist Carolyn Hax. ‘I’m 48 now, have a PhD and a thriving and influential career, and I still think there is very very little that’s worthy of applying my whole entire ass. I’m not interested in burning myself [out] by whole-assing stuff that will be fine if I half- or quarter-ass it. Being able to achieve maximum economy of ass is an important adult skill.

Trust isn’t about having a spotless record and finding someone else who does. It’s about finding someone good-hearted enough not to hurt you on purpose, and knowing you’ll recover and carry on when pain inevitably comes.

Other people's judgements are the mosquitoes of being human.

Lucky fece un passo per avvicinarsi a lei e la donna alzò una mano per fermarlo. «Ah-ah. No, fermo dove sei. Prima di avvicinarti mi devi giurare che non cercherai di toccarmi, baciarmi, leccarmi, sfiorarmi, e qualunque cosa finisca per “-armi” o implichi un contatto fisico tra te e me.» Adrianne lo guardò negli occhi, seria. «Su avanti, Lucky, non è difficile. Devi solo dire: “Lo prometto”. Vedrai, sarà indolore.» L’angelo caduto le lanciò uno sguardo torvo. «Ti preferivo quando stavi zitta.»

Det välkända ”hokus pokus” anses dock allmänt vara en förvrängning av de latinska orden i nattvardens instiftelseformel, ”hoc est corpus (meum)”=”detta är min lekamen”, liksom en fullständigare formel ”– filiokus” skulle komma av ”filioque” eller ”filii (=sonens) corpus”. En annan uppfattning är att den bildats ur trollformeln ”Hax pax max Deus adimax”, som började uppträda på 1500-talet. I Danmark och Sverige möter man varianten ”Pax fax max”.

The funny thing is, they'll all go," said Raffix with a smile. "All the knights and all the squires promoted to replace them. Every last one of them." He smiled ruefully. "Even me." "But why?" said Quint. "I mean, if you doubt Hax..." "Because, my dear chap, this is the Knights Academy," Raffix replied. "We were born to stormchase.

Hax pax max deus adimax,” said Lenox, and smiled. “What on earth are you trying to say?” “That’s where the word ‘hocus-pocus’ comes from. It’s a nonsense phrase that traveling magicians used to say to impress people as they did their tricks. Sounded enough like Latin, I suppose. I know it because my brother used to say it to me when I was four or five and we were arguing. It always scared the devil out of me. As he knew.” “Edmund did that?