Carnet Loomen Quotes & Sayings

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. — Stephen Fry

You live most intensely in human contact- and that's what we shrink from, poor timid creatures, from giving our souls to somebody to touch; for they, bungling fools, will generally paw it with dirty hands — D.H. Lawrence

Boys, welcome to the wonderful world of talking to women about their feelings. As a handy primer, here are a few things you should know:
1) Women have feelings.
2) You will spend the next seventy years or so trying to guess what they're feeling and why.
3) You will be wrong most of the time.
4) I like French Fries. — Brandon Sanderson

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have ... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization. — Edward Abbey

You've never been in love?"
He let out a quiet breath,and I felt him shake his head. "Easy to say. Harder to feel." He ran his fingers through my hair and tucked a few strands behind my ear. With a light voice, he said, "Out of curiosity, what would you have said if I wanted to..."
"I would've said no."
"Yeah?"
I nodded. "I'm glad you didn't, because that would have been awkward."
His chest shuddered with laughter. — Brodi Ashton

I may have been born into this world to be the Gwardian, but I was created for you, for us. You are the reason I exist, the reason I breathe. You are the light to my darkness, and without you I am lost forever. — Madison Thorne Grey

The way you see yourself today will affect your performance today. — Zig Ziglar

...Realization is born from error... — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

People don't get married just to have sex with each other. Not in the last 100 years or so. Even in England. — Ros Clarke

I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70. And this time we both know it. — Daniel Keyes

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.. — John Green

How come no one understood me, and more importantly, how come I was starting to not understand myself? — Kimberly Lauren

The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him. — Robert M. Pirsig

The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating. — Theodor Adorno