Karen Hesse Witness Quotes & Sayings

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well? — Charles Churchill

The Greenland fjords are peculiar for the spells of completely quiet weather, when there is not enough wind to blow out a match and the water is like a sheet of glass. The kayak hunter must sit in his boat without stirring a finger so as not to scare the shy seals away. Actually, he can only move his eyes, as even the slightest move otherwise might mean game lost. The sun, low in the sky, sends a glare into his eyes, and the landscape around moves into the realm of the unreal. The reflex from the mirror-like water hypnotizes him, he seems to be unable to move, and all of a sudden it is as if he were floating in a bottomless void, sinking, sinking, and sinking.... Horror-stricken, he tries to stir, to cry out, but he cannot, he is completely paralyzed, he just falls and falls. — Peter Freuchen

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. — William Shakespeare

Kestrel had bought a life, and loved it, and sold it. — Marie Rutkoski

When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem. — Erma Bombeck

... emotions are most often overwhelming when they are not your own — Debra Lynne Katz

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My secret is practice — David Beckham

The kids found the new high tensile Duncan Yo-Yo string was strong enough to use as a garrotte. — Fred Barnett