Karawane Reisen Quotes & Sayings

Gansey blinked, slower. The take-out dinner smell had gone away and all that remained was the heavy, pleasant smell of growing things. That, and Blue's voice on the other end of the phone. — Maggie Stiefvater

Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass ... if we do not take [tasks] one at a time and let them pass ... slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own ... structure. — Dale Carnegie

It blows my mind that I get to love you. — Colleen Hoover

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours. — John Updike

Erak belched quietly and leaned to one side so he could scratch his backside. He was sure that Slagor's crew had brought fleas with them into the hut. It was the one discomfort they had not had to bear so far. Cold, damp, smoke and smell. But now they could add fleas. He wished, not for the first time, that Slagor's wolfship had gone down in the gales on the Stormwhite Sea. — John Flanagan

A crazy person doesn't really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining. — George Carlin

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts. — Bill Watterson

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. — Tom Stoppard

Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms. — Jon Meacham

You hide a Jew. You pay. Somehow or other, you must. — Markus Zusak

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either. — C.S. Lewis

The trouble is, I'm writer, and most writers are terrible nosey parkers. — Roald Dahl

I said it is vainglorious to reproach yourself for lack of omniscience. That is also true of omnipotence. Report in as you can. — Rex Stout

I've got a gut feeling in my stomach ... — Alan Sugar