Czempin Quotes & Sayings

Cartwright grooved the chisel's tooth into the base of the skull, where the spine would fuse, and lifted the hammer. The chisel jumped in his hand and half the skull turned to silt. It cascaded down the rock wall with the faintest sigh. The {nine-fingered} boy let out a string of oaths so profane, so unparalleled, that surely they'd been inspired by a hell so near.

Cartwright was glad to have a hammer in hand. — Matthew Neill Null

Prayer does not give me what I want. It pummels my wants, kneads them, stretches them my whole life long, until at the last hour of my life I have learned to want one thing only, the only thing worth having. And so my whole life becomes a hidden sigh, an inarticulate utterance of the Name of God. My death will be my prayer, the sigh by which I give myself up at last into the presence of the Name. Thy — Benjamin Myers

I love you like a fat kid loves cake! — Scott Adams

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something. — Jasper Fforde

Even if I believe my opinion to be true, and am highly confident about its truth, unless it is 'fully, frequently and fearlessly' discussed, I will end up holding it as a dead dogma, a formulaic and unthinking response. — Nigel Warburton

materialism with emotionalism — Tamal Bandyopadhyay

Have you observed that only death awakens our feelings? How we love the friends who have just departed - don't you find? How we admire those of our masters who have been silenced, their mouths full of dirt! Then our tributes come naturally, tributes that they may have waited all their lives to hear. But do you know why we are always fairer and more generous towards the dead? The reason is simple! We have no obligation where they're concerned! They leave us free, we can take our time, fit the tribute into the interval between cocktails and a nice mistress, in other words, lost moments. If they did oblige us to do anything, it would be to remember, and our memories are short. No, what we like in our friends is fresh death, painful death, our own feelings, in short, ourselves! — Albert Camus

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without Love, lust and romance will always be short-lived. — Danielle Steel

Thoughts have the power,
To change how you perceive the world around you,
To inflict worry, or make peace abound too. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my mind (and that of scientists whom I employ to prove it) that Work is a dangerous and destructive drug, and should be called by its right name, which is Fatigue. — Robertson Davies

So you've not only somehow married Fraser's wife, but you've accidentally been raising his illegitimate son for the last fifteen years? — Diana Gabaldon

I always say to people who want to write: Live life! Don't stand on the rim, don't sit on the sidelines. Make mistakes, make a mess, get it wrong. Read everything, and get out and be in life. — Jeanette Winterson

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return. — Judy Blundell