Karl Llewellyn Quotes & Sayings

These steel monstrosities screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire flocks of birds banished tourism and wildlife, made people sick and drove them from their now-valueless homes. — Mike Bond

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world ... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I like naming characters. — Roddy Doyle

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched. — Jake Halpern

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man. — Martin Luther King Jr.

In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home. — Robert Green Ingersoll

So before everyone begins the big party for 'Brontosaurus' and celebrates this huge diversity of sauropod names, let's hold our horses. — Donald R. Prothero

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. — Pablo Picasso

The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true. — G.K. Chesterton

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other. — Troian Bellisario

Supervisors routinely fabricated statistics on agricultural production and industrial output because they were so fearful of telling their own bosses the truth. Lies were built upon lies, all the way to the top, so it is in fact conceivable that Kim Il-sung himself didn't know when the economy crashed — Barbara Demick

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.' — John C. Reilly

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be — Mario Vargas-Llosa

The real power is love, that which empowers others, that which arouses action, that which no chain is able to hold back, for even on the Cross or on the death bed one is able to love. One does not need youthful beauty, nor recognition or approval, nor money or prestige. Let love simply bloom ... and it is unstoppable. — Pope Francis