Karakocan Quotes & Sayings

My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do? — Steve Wynn

When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it. — Simone Weil

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost ... but still, I was alive. — J.K. Rowling

When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant. — Ambrose Bierce

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. — Maya Angelou

Sometimes it's the things that are all around us that are hardest to see, especially love. — Tonya Hurley

Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength. — Michael Shermer

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason. — Johann Gottfried Herder

I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on. — Mark Pincus

McCarthy succeeded because he discovered and made full use of a tradition of American journalism - that most newpapermen report the news 'straight.' This means that if a prominent person says something sensational - even if untrue - the press normally will report the statement exactly as spoken ... The press simply acts as a mirror. — William J. Lederer

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. — Barbara Kingsolver

More and more clearly as the scones disappeared into his interior he saw that what the sensible man wanted was a wife and a home with scones like these always at his diposal. — P.G. Wodehouse