Kass Quotes & Sayings

This time, the words weren't a prayer but a declaration. Clarke refused to let Thalia die, and nothing was going to stop her. She wouldn't let her best friend join the chorus of ghosts in her head. — Kass Morgan

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. — Leon Kass

Adrenaline pumped through her body as she stopped in the cabin entryway, just a few inches from Scott. His intense expression made her nervous - he looked suspicious. Was she coming on too strong? Flirting was not her specialty. She'd always been much more comfortable using scalpels and microscopes than smiles and sauntering strides. Scott's — Kass Morgan

They were going to drag the boy she loved into the clearing, point a gun at the kindest, bravest person she'd ever met, and end his life with the twitch of a finger. — Kass Morgan

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit. — Leon Kass

It happened a long time ago," she said quietly. Wells nodded. The words I know formed in his brain but got lost somewhere on the way to his mouth. His eyes began to prickle and he turned away quickly. Eight billion. That's how many people had died during the Cataclysm. It'd always seemed as abstract as any huge figure, like the age of Earth, or the number of stars in the galaxy. Yet now, he'd give anything to know that the people who'd eaten dinner together in this kitchen, with those plates, had somehow made it off the burning planet. "Wells, — Kass Morgan

Even with the crackle of the flames, the silence was unbearable. He wanted to ask her why she'd done it. Why she'd lied about Lilly. But whenever he tried to shape his thoughts into words, they died on his lips. Eventually, — Kass Morgan

Luckily, the injured had all been triaged in another area, but there was too much smoke in the air to confirm that the others had moved to safety. Wheezing, Wells ran forward, coughing and wiping his eyes with his sleeves as he called out for anyone who needed help. There — Kass Morgan

Clarke shifted so she was leaning against Bellamy. He wrapped his arms around her waist and leaned back, so they were both looking up at the sky. The roar of the fire was enough to muffle the voices of everyone around them, and with their eyes tilted upward, it almost felt like they were the only two people on Earth. — Kass Morgan

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein. — Deborah Kass

My life is Avatar, your life is Precious. — Ras Kass

She would figure out how to get what she wanted, what she needed, even when her long lashes failed to convince, when her body was no longer young and beautiful. She'd be more than pretty, She'd be strong. — Kass Morgan

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. — Leon Kass

I don't want to spend another day without you. I want to go to sleep every night with you by my side and wake up next to you every morning. I want nothing else but you, for the rest of my life. — Kass Morgan

You know what I always dreamed of? That with the greenhouse effect, one day Estonia can be what L.A. is right now. I always thought when the end of the world comes, I want to be in Estonia. I think then I'd survive. — Carmen Kass

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies. — Leon Kass

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice. — Leon Kass

The menu of this kitchen will have more than soup; it will serve as an opportunity to explore the vast untapped power of food as a force for participatory democracy, as a means of empowerment for those who have little and as a lens through which we embrace, and in fact relish, our differences but see and live through our commonalities. If you eat, then you are a part of this. — Sam Kass

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects. — Leon Kass

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it. — Leon Kass

It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes. — Carmen Kass

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture. — Leon Kass

In fact, it had been years since he heard the saying spoken aloud, but that didn't mean he didn't think about it every day. There were some things you never forgot. — Kass Morgan

There was no drug strong enough to repair a broken heart. — Kass Morgan

Any spot on this planet was going to be infinitely better than the world they'd left behind. For the first time in his life, he was free. — Kass Morgan

The 100 Tv-series" Clarke, who we are and who we need to be to survive are very different things — Kass Morgan

He'd always assumed those ancient poets had been full of shit, or at least had much better drugs than he'd ever tried. — Kass Morgan

I love you" he whispered in her ear. No matter how many times she heard them words, they never ceased to make her shiver. — Kass Morgan

You couldn't expect anyone else to share your suffering. You had to carry your pain alone. — Kass Morgan

He'd never known a girl who was so beautiful and intense at once. — Kass Morgan

Clarke stared at the crash scene, eyes straining in the dark, waiting for the inevitable moment when her training would kick in, when her instincts would anesthetize her panic. But hovering at the edge of the wide expanse of debris, absorbing the destruction, all she felt was horror. It — Kass Morgan

I'll say that you were so beautiful, you made me do ridiculous, reckless things. — Kass Morgan

Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys. — Deborah Kass

I love you," he whispered, staring into eyes that were aglow with firelight, and something else.
"I love you too. — Kass Morgan

I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude. — Ras Kass

It's in that tradition that we're here today, and we look to soup because there's no force on the globe that brings people together on a daily basis with the same consistency and manner than the cultivation, preparation and eating of food. Food affords us the opportunity to touch everyone in our community, to address the needs of all groups - food is the intersection of the most pressing issues of our time. — Sam Kass

Finally, he set her down gently on the ground.
But he didn't loosen his hold. Instead, he pulled her even closer, and before Clarke had time to catch her breath, his lips were on hers. — Kass Morgan

We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits,
Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut. — Ras Kass

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman. — Leon Kass

Who we are and who we need to be to survive are two different things. — Kass Morgan

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. — Leon Kass

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price. — Deborah Kass

The air smelled different here than it did in the woods closer to the clearing. Perhaps it was the species of trees, or the makeup of the soil, but there was something else too. The scent of leaves and dirt and rain had been mingling for centuries, undisturbed by any human. It felt cleaner here, purer, a place where no one had ever spoken and no one hand ever cried. — Kass Morgan

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right. — Leon Kass

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish? — Leon Kass

Bellamy took a step back. "What? And put you in charge of those as well?" He ran his finger along the bow. "No way. I'm ready to hunt." Graham snorted. "And what exactly did you hunt back on Walden except for girls with low standards and even lower self-esteem?" Bellamy — Kass Morgan

I figured everyone deserved to be able to fall asleep at night. To wake up without feeling that your nightmares had left scars inside your head. — Kass Morgan

I get paid to work; I don't pay to work. — Carmen Kass

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country. — Leon Kass

Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh. — Leon R. Kass

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me. — Carmen Kass

I'm bangin' from Belize to Tel Aviv on the Red Sea
Racin' Saddam Hussein on Kawasaki jet ski's — Ras Kass

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants. — Leon Kass

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful. — Leon Kass

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own. — Leon Kass

Although the astronomical event of a lifetime was playing out right before his eyes, he was looking only at her. — Kass Morgan

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia. — Carmen Kass

The 100 tv series " Who we are and who we need to be survive are very different things — Kass Morgan

He wanted to show her how to live, even after he was gone. — Kass Morgan

why were you so mean to little Chancellor Junior?" Clarke looked at him with a mixture of shock and indignation. For a moment, he thought she might actually hit him, but then she just shook her head. "That's none of your business." "Is he your boyfriend?" Bellamy pressed. "No," Clarke said flatly. But then her mouth twitched into a questioning smile. "Why do you care?" "Just taking a census," Bellamy replied. "Specifically, to determine the relationship status of all the pretty girls on Earth. — Kass Morgan

Nature was beautiful in a way he'd never imagined, but this...this was life. — Kass Morgan

The realization came to her slowly, as if through a thick haze - as if the hands belonged to someone else, and the blood was part of a nightmare. But they were her hands, and the blood was real. — Kass Morgan

I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad. — Carmen Kass

We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years. — Leon Kass

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting. — Deborah Kass

So for the moment, she contented herself with leaning against Bellamy, letting the sound of his steady heartbeat temporarily drown out the rest of her thoughts. — Kass Morgan

She needed to stand, but her body felt strangely heavy, as if invisible weights were tugging on her limbs. Gravity here felt different, harsher - or was she injured? Glass placed her hand on her shin and gasped. Her legs were wet. — Kass Morgan

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. — Leon Kass

I got niggaz lookin' for Websters like George Papadopolis' — Ras Kass

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. — Leon Kass

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. — Leon Kass

Nope. You didn't miss much." "Somehow, I find that hard to believe." Thalia raised her shoulders in an attempt to sit up, but settled back down with a groan. Clarke gently placed a rolled-up blanket behind her. "Thanks," she muttered and surveyed Clarke for a moment before she spoke again. "Okay, what's wrong?" Clarke gave her a bemused smile. "Nothing! I'm just so happy you're feeling better." "Please. You can't hide anything from me. You know I always manage to get your secrets out of you," Thalia deadpanned. "You can start by telling me where you found the medicine." "Octavia — Kass Morgan

You need to let yourself be happy. Or else, what's the point of anything? — Kass Morgan

In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power completely to articulate it. — Leon R. Kass

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. — Leon Kass

These soliloquies explain our people's lack of stability
You keepin it real, but ain't got a clue what reality really be
See the diameter of your knowledge
Is the circumference of your activity — Ras Kass

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. — Leon Kass

Clarke grabbed his hand, and together, they started down the staircase into the darkness. — Kass Morgan

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. — Leon Kass

Wells?" Someone was prodding his arm. "Hey, Wells?" Wells's eyes snapped open, draining the last droplets of a dream from his mind. He'd been floating down a canal in Venice. No, wait, he'd been riding a horse into battle alongside Napoleon. Kendall — Kass Morgan

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems. — Leon Kass

The camp suddenly felt light-years away, as distant as Earth used to look from the Colony. "You make me feel legitimately crazy. You know that, right?" Wells whispered, running his hand down her back. "Why? Because I'm seducing you in a tree?" "Because no matter what else is going on, being with you makes me perfectly happy. It's crazy, switching gears that fast." Wells ran his hand along her cheek. "You're like a drug." Sasha smiled. "I think you need to work on your compliments, space boy." "I've — Kass Morgan

I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that. — Carmen Kass

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to. — Deborah Kass

Remember, there is no peace without peaceful exchange. — Kass Morgan

I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years. — Deborah Kass

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back?
That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act? — Ras Kass

We aren't born for ourselves alone. Wells couldn't abandon the others after the horror of that day. He needed to get back to help bury Priya, to comfort those who wouldn't be able to sleep. To restrain those whose grief and fear might turn into a need for vengeance. — Kass Morgan

#Bellarke forever. — Kass Morgan

We aren't born for ourselves alone. You have to take care of other people. — Kass Morgan

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument. — Leon Kass

That was the worst part about losing someone-finding a place to store all the thoughts and feelings you'd otherwise share with them. — Kass Morgan

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. — Leon Kass

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life. — Leon Kass

Today, he'd observed them seize a woman who'd gotten pregnant with an unregistered child. There'd be no chance at lenience. She would be Confined until she gave birth, the child would be placed in the Council's care, and the mother would be executed. The ship could only support a certain number of lives, and allowing anyone to disrupt the delicate balance would jeopardize the entire race. — Kass Morgan

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic. — Carmen Kass

That was the thing about secrets-you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost. — Kass Morgan

Even Confined children deserve a chane of life. That's why there's a retrial on their eighteenth birthday.
- The Chancellor

You know none of them will be pardoned. We can't afford the resources -
-Vice Chancellor RHodes — Kass Morgan

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning. — Leon Kass

That was the thing about heartache. You never could erase it. You carried it with you, always. — Kass Morgan