Kaplooie Quotes & Sayings

Did you see what happened?"
"Hard to miss," he said dryly. "Your boat went kaplooie."
Tally blinked at his easy dismissal of two lives and a million-dollar boat. "Is that the technical term for it? — Cherry Adair

A lot of times when you play ... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain. — Venus Williams

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. — Claude Debussy

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. — Everett Dirksen

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing. — Gertrude Atherton

Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But we're breeding food that is less safe for us, it tastes much worse than it ever has in history, and it's wreaking havoc on the environment in a way that it never did in history before. All in the interest of it being cheap. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love. — Princess Diana

Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free. — Ernest Holmes

No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don't worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever. — Iyanla Vanzant

I am aware these little books don't last long even if they are a success. — Beatrix Potter

something good will come out of that disgrace, pain, hopelessness, troubles and cries. It's happening right now. Not tomorrow. — Paul Gitwaza

Cards! Me sit down to whist with you! Is it consistent? Who is responsible for it? Who has shattered my energies and turned them to whist? Ah, perish, Russia! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us. — Berthold Auerbach

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. — Albert Camus

Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments. — Charles Duhigg

We both just stood there. I let the breeze brush against my skin, the sun release the tension in my muscles. It was as close as I had felt to God in a long time. "It's like we're praying," Celeste whispered. "Only we're not saying anything. — Nancy Rue