Kaapora Quotes & Sayings

A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments. — Stefan Molyneux

That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another. — Megan Whalen Turner

A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40. — Coco Chanel

The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller, something as bogus as a coke high: purpose, maybe, or goals, or whatever rah-rah Junior Chamber of Commerce word you wanted to use. It was no big deal; it didn't go all at once, with a bang. And maybe, Richie thought, that's the scary part. How you didn't stop being a kid all at once, with a big explosive bang, like one of that clown's trick balloons. The kid in you just leaked out, like the air of a tire. — Stephen King

It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction. — Jennifer Grant

In the worlds above, I slowly discovered, to know and be able to think of something is all one needs in order to move toward it. — Eben Alexander

The core of a neutron star is so dense that a single spoonful of matter from it would weigh more than 500 billion kilograms. — Bill Bryson

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Love is a spark of divinity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? — George Carlin

If Christ were only a cistern, we might soon exhaust His fullness - but who can drain a fountain? — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When you have the ability to dream, you have the capability to do. — Debasish Mridha

Looking at a human being or even a picture of a human being is different from looking at an object. Newborn babies, only hours old, copy the expressions of adults. They pucker up, try to grin, look surprised, and stick out their tongues. The photographs of imitating infants are both funny and touching. They do not know they are doing it; this response is in them from the beginning. Later, people learn to suppress the imitation mechanism; it would not be good if we went on forever copying every facial expression we saw. Nevertheless, we human beings love to look at faces because we find ourselves there. When you smile at me, I feel a smile form on my own face before I am aware it is happening, and I smile because I am seeing me in your eyes and know that you like what you see. — Siri Hustvedt

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. — Simone Weil

Just out of curiosity, do they know I'm here?"
"Yep." My Mother did, anyway. Mention of a French tutor had effectively headed off any possibility of shopping.
"I take it they trust you not to do anything inappropriate."
I couldn't tell if he was being serious. I assumed not. "Absolutely. In fact,my mother would probably pay you to do something to make them trust me a little less." I took a look at his face. He looked a little stunned. "Oh,no. I didn't mean-"
Or maybe I did. But Alex was backing away from me, hands raised. "okay."
"J'etais stupide."
He sat down heavily on the edge of my desk, narrowly missing the biscotti. "I wouldn't say that. But your use of the imperfect is improving."
"Just what I always wanted," I said sadly, "to get better at imperfection. — Melissa Jensen