Karpotasis Quotes & Sayings

When the resistance is gone, so are the demons. It's like a koan that we can work with by learning how to be more gentle, how to relax, and how to surrender to the situations and people in our lives. — Pema Chodron

What are you afraid of?" he asked.
"Losing control," I replied.
"Sometimes losing control can be wicked awesome," he said. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village. — Andrea Gibson

The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb. — Alexander Theroux

The dead die hard, trespassers on the beyond, they must take the place as they find it, the shafts and manholes back into the muck, till such time as the lord of the manor incurs through his long acquiescence a duty of care in respect of them. They are free among the dead by all means, then their troubles are over, their natural troubles. But the debt of nature, that scandalous post-obit on one's own estate, can no more be discharged by kicking the bucket than descent can be made into the same stream twice. This is a true saying. — Samuel Beckett

I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman. — Sophia Tolstaya