Karnofsky Quotes & Sayings

The big scandal around IG Farben this week is the unlucky subsidiary Spottbilligfilm AG, whose entire management are about to be purged for sending to OKW weapons procurement a design proposal for a new airborne ray which could turn whole populations, inside a ten-kilometer radius, stone blind. An IG review board caught the scheme in time. Poor Spottbilligfilm. It had slipped their collective mind what such a weapon would do to the dye market after the next war. — Thomas Pynchon

My face set to a grim and determined expression. I speak in all modesty as I say this, but I discovered at that moment that I have a fierce will to live. It's not something evident, in my experience. Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the every end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life-hungry stupidity. — Yann Martel

They were wrong, he thought. She is better than Garbo. — Suzanne Stroh

Learning is intelligence.
Knowing is understanding.
Practicing is wisdom.
Teaching is virtue. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Pink ribbon scars
That never forget
I've tried so hard
To cleanse these regrets
My angel wings
Were bruised and restrained
My belly stings — Billy Corgan

Whether or not you have known someone like Tom, there is always an invitation to be someone like him. — Susan Cutshall

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it. — Bill Vaughan

The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars. — David Nicholls

Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life. — Joni Mitchell

No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures. — Jose Mujica

In this life," he went on, "you got to see what is, as you might say, and then face up to what you wish there wasn't. — Mary Norton

I had equal opportunity to touch God sitting in my room, singing Him songs, as I did on a stage in front of twenty thousand people. — Anna Blanc