Karoliina Blackburn Quotes & Sayings

I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate. — Mal Peet

That when you change what you believe, you change what you do. — Spencer Johnson

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers

New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the bloody 1971 revolt at Attica prison. The settlement will be paid in the form of chocolate bars and packs of Newports that can be picked up in the commissary. — Colin Quinn

Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test. — John Ruskin

She wasn't like any woman who'd come before her. Not just because of who she was, but also because of who I was when I was with her. — Sylvia Day

Capitalists, if you think that you can play footsies with these people, you're wrong. They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you. — Glenn Beck

Buttercup," I say. Thousands of people are dead, but he has survived and even looks well fed. On what? He can get in and out of the house through a window we always left ajar in the pantry. He must have been eating field mice. I refuse to consider the alternative. I — Suzanne Collins

The odds are stacked against you until you realize: You make the odds. — Tehya Sky

The moment we crossed over the threshold, the moment when our veins and cells and organs went blip, I closed my eyes
And illusioned.
It wasn't like any illusion I'd created before. It flowed from me like a song, an orchestra of interweaving threads and melodies, painting themselves into a picture around us. [Everything] ... disappeared, and only Constantine, Queen Honoria and I stood in the nothing between two worlds. — Heather Dixon

There are questions Kyungsoo doesn't ask Jongin. He doesn't ask Jongin if they can stay together forever, or how many tomorrows are really left, because sometimes the truth is too bright. He can only hold onto the seconds, each gesture, each contact, each syllable. Jongin comes in seconds. Everything comes in seconds.
If only the seconds could last long enough. — Changdictator

Emerging from the train, I found it was fully night, the air excited by foreboding and something else, something like the feel of a childhood snow day when time was emancipated from institutions, when the snow seemed like a technology for defeating time, or like defeated time itself falling from the sky, each glittering ice particle an instant gifted back from your routine. — Ben Lerner

It slowly dawns on me what it is, the sensation that has bridged the gap between how I saw the world yesterday and how I see it today. It compensates for my lost keenness and even makes everything around me a little brighter.
Hope. — Jessica Khoury