Berndt Quotes & Sayings

Black Wind was Asha's longship. He had not seen his sister in ten years, but that much he knew of her. Odd that she would call it that, when Robb Stark had a wolf named Grey Wind. "Stark is grey and Greyjoy's black," he murmured, smiling, "but it seems we're both windy. — George R R Martin

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. — John Greenleaf Whittier

For what can more partake of the mysterious than an antipathy spontaneous and profound such as is evoked in certain exceptional mortals by the mere aspect of some other mortal, however harmless he may be, if not called forth by this very harmlessness itself? — Herman Melville

Ah, yes, the trusty time paradox. If I go back in time and kill my grandfather, then shall I cease to exist? I believe, as Gorben and Berndt did, that any repercussions are already being felt. We can only change the future, not the past or present. If I go back, then I have already been back.
- Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer

I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we're alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange. — Paulo Coelho

Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different. — Julian Baggini

Asking someone to help you commit a crime and then leaving him alive to point you out to the enforcers is foolish. — Lindsay Buroker

Dry creek
glimpsed
by lightning — Kobayashi Issa

When I forget how to love I look at my dog. — Debasish Mridha

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric. — Adam Jones

We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which came and went on the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there. — Henry David Thoreau

The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man. — Fernando Pessoa

The most dangerous savages live in cities. — Austin O'Malley

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense. — Ida B. Wells

Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh. — Will Ferrell

...she basked gratefully in the warmth of her husband's love — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki