Owain Quotes

Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now." "So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty?

Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you." "And that's the definition of a real friend?" "Oh, yes, just ask Owain." He laughed.

Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.

Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.

We don't let them die, in Wales--Merlin, and Arthur and Owain--we keep them close by and asleep in the hills to be awakended if ever we need them.

Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd reply, "it's not your color." Pithy. Just to show him that I'd noticed. Or maybe I'd show myself to her and say, "Guess I'm not the only one who uses humans around here." And then I'd summon some of Owain's hounds to chew off the bottom bits of her legs. Then she wouldn't fit just right into his arms. She'd be too short. It'd be like hugging a midget. Nuala- pg. 75

Nothing bad happens when nothing happens, Hill thinks.

What is there," Owain wondered aloud, to the sky above him and the soil below, "persuades this man still that my words do not mean what they seem to mean in sane men's ears?

It was given to people like King Arthur and Llewellyn the Great and of course Owain Lawgoch - " "Of course," echoed Ronan sarcastically. "Of course Owain Lawgoch." "Don't be such a shitbag." Adam murmured.

Thank you rain, thank you barrel, Hill thinks.

Annwyl: dear Iesu Mawr: great Jesus Hwyl fawr am nawr: good-bye for now Diolch i Dduw: Thank God Dw i’n dy garu di: I love you Owain Glyndŵr: a Welsh ruler, a figure of Welsh nationalism, and the last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales. He lived from 1349–1416 Eistedfodd: a festival of Welsh literature, music, dancing, and acting

Pain may well remind us that we are alive, but love reminds us why we are alive.

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God for me is not imbued in holy relics. He is in every stone and drop of water around us.

is the small changes you make that will add up to something bigger. But in this case, small doesn’t mean easy. It requires focus, dedication and effort that, over time, will start to pay off.

Maybe they’d give her everything she wanted. All it would cost was her secrets. Charlie pasted a smile on her face. Glanced at the old “fear less” tattoo looping across the skin of her inner arm. “Fine,” she said through gritted teeth. “In that case, I’d like to confess.” “Confess?” Vicereine echoed, puzzled. “Do you remember when Brayan Araya had his secrets written with a laser on grains of rice and kept them in a glass jar under his pillow? I snatched that like I was the tooth fairy. Or remember when Eshe Goodwin got that book with all the detailed illustrations and no one could make head or tail of it? The secrets were written in the artwork, so I cut those pages straight out. I’m not sure she’s opened it up to know they’re missing. I took Owain Cadwallader’s eighteenth-century memoir and discovered a whole pile of notes stitched into the interior binding of another book—I forget the title, but it had these cool metal catches on the side—and took those without letting anyone be the wiser. Oh, and I grabbed Jaden Coffey’s whole collection of seventies shadow magic zines. Want me to go on? I’ve been doing this for years.” She felt giddy, like she was sliding down a hill, no way to stop now. All the exultation of finally admitting to something. “You cut out pages from Eshe’s book?” Vicereine sounded pissed. “I’m a bad person.” Charlie reached into the pocket of her jeans, took something out, and threw it to Malik. Startled, he caught it. When he looked at what was in his hands, his brows drew together. “I also grabbed your wallet when I brushed by you. Sorry.” “You are making some very dangerous enemies,” Vicereine told her. “What’s this all about?” Malik was tight-jawed. “What are you doing?” “Punish me,” Charlie said. “I’m loads worse than Adeline.” “You want it tied to you?” Bellamy asked. The idea of someone inside her head, someone she couldn’t hide her worst thoughts from, someone she loved, made her feel a little queasy. “Yes. Reward or punishment, give him to me. I’ll be the Hierophant.

You wake up one morning, reach for a cigarette and suddenly you realize you’re not a social smoker any more,’ Andy later reflected. ‘Suddenly you’re an actual smoker.

You are more likely to achieve your goal if you get someone to help you. You may be surprised at how willing others will be to support you.

Most people are really surprised when they hear how many people say yes when asked to do something that apparently comes with no benefits to the person saying yes.

Smoking, alcohol-cessation and weight-loss programmes that provide peer support work better than those that do not.13 If you’re in any way sporty, you might have noticed that you are able to exercise faster or harder when you’re working out with another person.

Even at three degrees of separation, you are still influenced by those within your social network.

We wouldn’t be able to achieve such great feats without working together as a team. But too often we think about goals as individual activities, pursued in isolation from other people, despite the fact that in most areas of our working life, working in groups is the norm.

People are giving up smoking not as individuals, but collectively in groups. Yet smokers rarely start by thinking about how to draw on the group dynamic from the outset to help them to achieve their goal.

Whether you like it or not, your friends, family and colleagues will already be having a major influence upon your life, but you might not have thought before about how you can use the reach of that to help you achieve your goals.

underlying the ‘share’ principle is the fact that human beings are social animals. And when we recognize this fully, we will come to realize that we are better off working together if we want to achieve our individual objectives.

you are trying to achieve – your goal. The problem is that, in most areas of life, we don’t get feedback of this kind. We charge ahead with our personal and work projects but don’t get a chance to step back and think about the progress we’re making towards the goals we set ourselves. And this is because most of the things we set out to achieve aren’t set up like a driving lesson, in which you get an instant understanding of the relationship between your actions and their consequences.

Feedback doesn’t just show us where we are going wrong, then; it enables us to understand better the impact and the progress we are making in relation to our ultimate goals.

The other mindset, encouraged in those who were given praise based on their effort, is the ‘growth mindset’, and it is founded on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts.

And finally, it’s clear that simply praising people for being inherently good at something isn’t as effective as encouraging effort and persistence with a task.

Social norms are the values, actions and expectations of a particular society or group, and they offer guides to our behaviour

Reflect and celebrate success. Take some time to reflect on what has worked well (and not so well), and make sure you celebrate what you have achieved before moving on to the next goal.

social isolation has a similar effect to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day.

* At supper in Owain’s hall there was good food and plenteous mead and ale, and harp music of the best. Hywel ab Owain sang, improvising upon the beauty of Gwynedd and the splendour of her history, and Cadfael’s recalcitrant heart shed its habit for a half-hour, and followed the verses far into the mountains inland of Aber, and across the pale mirror of Lavan Sands to the royal burial-place of Llanfaes on Anglesey. In youth his adventurings had all looked eastward, now in his elder years eyes and heart turned westward. All heavens, all sanctuaries of the blessed lie to westward, in every legend and every imagination, at least for men of Celtic stock; a suitable meditation for old men. Yet here in the royal llys of Gwynedd Cadfael did not feel old.

To put it another way, social isolation has a similar effect to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. So you may wish to focus your goal on broadening or deepening your social relationships.

However, there is growing evidence that learning later in life can improve your self-esteem, life satisfaction and sense of optimism.

In other words, for most of us, the problem is not a lack of goals, it’s too many of them.

If we set out to achieve a long list of activities over an extended period of time, we are less likely to achieve them than if we break them down into a series of discrete steps.

The second variant of chunking involves breaking down your overall objective into pockets of time or repeated tasks. So instead of thinking about all the different tasks you need to undertake, you might think about how much time you need to set aside every week to achieve your overall objective.

But there was a danger that he was slipping into a bad habit described in the media as ‘middle-class drinking’5 in which a glass of wine or beer was no longer an occasional treat, but part of the daily routine

Making a simple plan that sets out when, how and where you are going to follow through on your intentions has been shown to be effective at helping people to eat more fruit, increase public transport use, reduce discrimination, get more exercise, diet, improve academic performance, quit smoking and recycle more.13

For many people, eating popcorn at the cinema constitutes a habit – a regular practice, developed over time, that is hard to give up. To test just how strong a habit eating popcorn in the cinema is, researchers devised a fun experiment in which people entering a cinema were given a bucket of either fresh or stale popcorn. Nobody would claim to like stale popcorn. But the researchers surmised that those who had developed a popcorn-eating habit would be impervious to the taste, whereas those who rarely bought popcorn wouldn’t be so quick to reach for the next handful. Just to make sure that the stale stuff did actually taste worse, they got everyone to rate the taste of the popcorn they’d eaten: the fresh popcorn, unsurprisingly, won hands down.

The first is that habits require a cue or a trigger (going to the cinema). The second is that habits require a ‘routine’, the act that is performed (buying and eating the popcorn). Third, and most important, the routine needs then to be repeated in a consistent context, and it is this repetition that starts to create an automatic link between the situation that you encounter and the behaviour you perform.

The key to disrupting the cue is to think about ways of altering your day-to-day environment. For example, if you are trying to lose weight, try getting rid of all the unhealthy food from your fridge and cupboards and replacing it with food that will help reinforce more positive eating behaviours. Or if that sounds like too much of a strain in the first instance, at the very least try moving the unhealthy stuff to the top shelf so that it’s out of reach – you will be surprised by the effect that this has in disrupting the automaticity of your response to the cue.

substitute the old routine for a new one. Electronic cigarettes, for example, are being used increasingly by smokers to substitute a more pernicious habit (smoking tobacco) for one with much less severe health implications (vaping electronic cigarettes). In these instances, note that the cue that triggers the behaviour can remain. It’s just your response to the cue that changes. This of course can be especially useful in those situations in which it’s going to be tricky to change the cue – for example, if you smoke in response to stressful situations.

But for now it’s enough to know that making a commitment – to go the gym, to attend your language lessons – is the important, first step.

Shunning the bureaucratic levers of the past and finding intelligent ways to encourage, support and enable people to make better choices for themselves.’1 Whatever

She smiled, as she rammed the tip of her knife into his left eye first, plop, then the right, plop. They popped like water balloons, and emptied onto his lap, as he yelled and screamed for mercy.

In other words, ‘if money doesn’t make you happy, you probably aren’t spending it right’.

Constantine, the king of Scots, and Owain, king of the Strathclyde Britons,

You won’t settle for peace, Rob,” said Owain. “Not after what you’ve seen. You’ll demand justice...yes, and you’ll take it. I know you. And if you want us to be of any help to you when the time comes for you to stand tall, you'll have to teach us how to stand beside you.

These factors have led Harvard Professor of Psychology Dan Gilbert to suggest that helping other people is one of the most selfish things you can decide to do.20

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shoulder. “And this rapscallion is his twin brother, Owain,” he added,

Owain stepped past her father’s chair to reach her for her hand and raise her up. Cristina tipped her cheek for a kiss. Applause echoed throughout the room. Owain seated Cristina again and went back to his chair. Gwen turned to smile at the young man next to her, to comment on how lovely the scene had been, only to find him unsmiling. And then he pulled a blade from the sheath at his waist and started forward.

Well, you know what they say. You have to work on relationships to keep them fresh. This little jaunt may just prove to be the thing needed to spice up their relationship. Of course, the likelihood that Mary would survive the reunion celebration was pretty low, but that was all right too.

He finally knew what Beauty had done when she came in the place of Owaine to the castle – now he, too, was about to give up his life for one he loved.

Owain of Strathclyde (the Welsh-speaking kingdom of western Scotland).

You're all Helen talks about. She's been reading Welsh history books and plaguing the family with accounts of Owain Glynd and something called the Eistedfodd." His eyes sparkled with friendly mockery. "Helen was hacking and spitting so much the other day that we thought she was coming down with a cold, until we realized she was practicing the Welsh alphabet." Ordinarily Rhys would have made some sarcastic retort, but he'd barely noticed the gibe. His chest had gone tight with pleasure. "She doesn't have to do that," he muttered. "Helen wants to please you," Devon said. "It's her nature. Which leads to something I want to make clear: Helen is like a younger sister to me. And although I'm obviously the last man alive who should lecture anyone about propriety, I expect you to behave like an altar boy with her for the next few days." Rhys gave him a surly glance. "I *was* an altar boy, and I can tell you that reports of their virtue are highly exaggerated.

May I kiss you?” Owain’s voice was just a slip of silk in the dark. “I think you’d better.

— Entregue a criança. — Gundleus ignorou os insultos, sabendo que eram apenas desafios esperados de um homem antes da batalha. — Dê-me o rei aleijado! — Dê-me a sua prostituta, Gundleus — respondeu Owain. — Você não é homem suficiente para ela. Dê-me a prostituta e você pode ir em paz. Gundleus cuspiu.

As the royal party moved through the streets, one of the young street urchins darted up to Lord Owain, the eldest son of Lord Gruffudd, and attempted to slip his hand into his pocket. Owain quickly grabbed the boy and shook him roughly. “Have some respect,” he snapped. Hearing the altercation, Gruffudd turned his head and smiled at the boy. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a coin, tossing it to the boy. “Run along now and remember to have more respect for your superiors in the future,” he said, giving him a cuff to the arm. The boy, red-faced nodded his head in thanks and ran back into the crowd. “Why did you do that?” Owain asked. “Because now he will go on his way and not bother us again,” Gruffudd explained. Owain simply shook his head in disgust, and with a surly look towards the crowd, rubbed his hands on his tunic. The boy’s clothing had been so filthy that he could feel the dirt coating his fingers.

I will not let you shoot my brother." "I will not let you harm my Queen." First meeting between Owain and Anna in The Hidden Rose

they tend to be very powerful. Their abilities offer incremental advantage every turn so they favour a long game and a stalemated board. As they are attackable directly, like players, then playing one without adequate blockers will see them getting killed before you can gain sufficient benefit.

Admittedly, from her observations, Cristina, King Owain’s

They’ll have Donald Duck and Goofy and the gang on the wallpaper ready for the first arrival in the nursery, the boy who would be conker champion, and the signed baseball bat and mitt, and his granddad’s fighter plane suspended from the ceiling. And he’ll coach him in baseball, and Phineas in cricket, and Owain will teach him to fish, and later shoot. Phineas would be one godparent, he’d decided, and Annie and Owain, and Jasmine, and the Commander and Priny, and Miss Wyndham and John Beecher, and Tom Parr, there’ll be plenty to go round, enough new trees over the years. And they’ll grow up, their brood, like Jasmine’s and the Owens’, and there’ll be all the Hall and the grounds to chase each other round in, and the river to explore, and picnics on it, and trips to its hidden places, and all that English countryside, and the half that was in Wales, to play in. Humphrey clamped his cigar in his mouth, and scattered sheep feeding by a field gate with a couple more blasts on the horn, singing his way down Batch Valley.