Baroness Karen Quotes & Sayings

We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of our families. This is how we can create a more peaceful world. — Dalai Lama

Ben isn't hard to manage, but Blix's wife, Karen, likes the title too much to part with it. He's made her a baroness." She sighed. "The whole thing has got rather baroque. Karen and I are friends, or were, in any case. Blix asked her for a divorce and told her he was in love with me, probably thinking it would soften the blow." She shook her head. "Now she won't speak to me. — Paula McLain

Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command. — Tacitus

*Customer service* is seldom about the customer; it is usually about the seller's chances of making more money from that customer in future. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting. — The Edge

The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them. — David C. Day

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within. — Nikita Khrushchev

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them,
that is another matter ... — Lilian Whiting

Being called fat is not like being called stupid or unfunny, which is the worst thing you could ever say to me. — Mindy Kaling

When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckett
as told by Bill Moyer in the Foreword he wrote for, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson. Afterword by Ann Patchett — Samuel Beckett

I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived? — Ernest Gaines

When you're fighting a raging war inside your own head, the rules of engagement aren't clear. — Kathryn Perez