Karnov Quotes & Sayings

It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself. — Nelson Mandela

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze. — Arundhati Roy

Henri was giggling now, barely able to contain himself. "So I'm to shovel coal into my shoes hoping no one notices, while smoke and steam - what of the vapor?"
"There's little more smoke than a cigar, and the steam would be barely visible by gas lamp. It vents out the back of your trousers, under the tail of your coat."
"Marvelous!" said Henri. "I use a similar port for my own vapors. I want to try them, immediately. — Christopher Moore

I wasn't exactly sure what "nothing good" meant, but I could imagine in this world of humans, "nothing good" could mean a lot of bad things. — Tamra Torero

Find whatever love is left in your life and hold on to it tightly. And one day, things will have gotten less gray, less dull. — Sierra Simone

Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ni de."
" In this world, I love you the most. — Cassandra Clare

America posed a deeply interesting question to any Frenchmen with a political curiosity to ask it. How had Americans launched a revolution that aimed at establishing a free, stable, and constitutional government and made a success of it, while the French had in forty-one years lurched from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy, to the declaration of the republic, to mob rule, the Terror, the mass murder, and thence to a conservative republic, Napoleonic autocracy, the Bourbon restoration, further revolution, and the installation of an Orleanist constitutional monarchy? — Alan Ryan

I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody. — Steven Morrissey

In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. — Dan Brown