Karantonis Quotes & Sayings

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us? — Alexander Pope

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize. — Robert Breault

For some girls, our bodies are not immortal so much as
expendable, we have punished them or wearied
from dragging them around for so long and so we go

wearing the brilliant plumage of the possibly freed
by death. — Connie Voisine

Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. — Lynn Raye Harris

It's the system that surrounds us, rather than any intrinsic quality, that accounts for the vast majority of our behavior. — Jeff Sutherland

And so my story begins, like so many stories, with a woman — Daniel Defoe

Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day. — J. Lincoln Fenn

I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road. — Archie Moore

Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually. — Abbi Glines

The whole thing starts with a single knot
and needles. A word and pen. Tie a loop
in nothing. Look at it. Cast on, repeat
the procedure till you have a line
that you can work with.
It's a pattern made of relation alone,
my patience, my rhythm, till empty bights
create a fabric that can be worn,
if you're lucky and practised. It's never
too late
to pick up dropped stitches ...
(from "How to Knit a Poem") — Gwyneth Lewis