Kampparit Quotes & Sayings

[Julie] had lived a great deal among lies, before plumping for a small life of her own, a sincere and restricted life from which all pretense, even in matters sensual, was banished. How many crazy decisions and allegiances to successive aspects fo the truth! Had she not, one day when her costume for a fancy dress had demanded short hair, cut off the great chestnut mane that fell below her waist when she let it down? 'I could have hired a wig,' she thought. 'I might also, at a pinch, have passed the rest of my life with Becker or Espivant. If it comes to that, I could also have gone on stirring puddings in a saucepan at Carneilhan. The things "one might have done" are, in fact, the things one could not do ... — Colette

To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time. — Malcolm Gets

I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that. — M. Stanton Evans

Only fools are certain. — V.E Schwab

When you take what isn't offered freely, you have nothing. — Nora Roberts

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it. — Jenni Schaefer

She was like someone in whom the faculty of becoming interested is worn out. — Willa Cather

I'm drenched
in the flood
which has yet to come

I'm tied up
in the prison
that has yet to exist

Not having played
the game of chess
I'm already the checkmate

Not having tasted
a single cup of your wine
I'm already drunk

Not having entered
the battlefield
I'm already wounded and slain

I no longer
know the difference
between image and reality

Like the shadow
I am
and
I am not — Jalaluddin Rumi

I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up. — Fennel Hudson

To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock. — Margaret Thatcher

It's these darn barbecues. It's so hard to stand and hold on to a plate full of food, a drink and your dignity at the same time — Emma Goldrick

Normally when a person has a stellar image another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself. — Jay Asher

In the meantime, the works of Gordon, Lupyan, and others suggests that words are not just convenient labels for things; rather, they are extremely powerful mental devices. — Christine Kenneally