Karapetian Imports Quotes & Sayings

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am. — Billy Corgan

The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all were combined to keep from him any results of observation or reflection save those prescribed: probably, of all means for stifling healthy and helpful thought, a theological seminary, as then conducted whether Catholic or Protestant, Jewish or Mohammedan, was the most perfect. — Andrew Dickson White

What is it to make a moral judgement, or to argue about an ethical issue, or to live according to ethical standards? How do moral judgements differ from other practical judgements? Why do we regard a woman's decision to have an abortion as raising an ethical issue, but not her decision to change her job? What is the difference between a person who lives by ethical standards and one who doesn't? — Peter Singer

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things. — David Hume

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. — Margaret Mitchell

On Twitter at last, and can't think of a thing to say. Some writer I turned out to be. — Stephen King

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll. — Billy Corgan

If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate. — David Warlick

Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God. — Edmund Campion

Because I knew it wasn't for forever. Grace touched his hair and he bent his head to kiss her, quiet as a secret. — Maggie Stiefvater

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions. — Michael Cunningham