Kerpelo Quotes & Sayings

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry. — Simon Armitage

It's not what you have, it's what you've done with it. — BookOwl

It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement. — Anna Quindlen

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it. — Alan Hovhaness

Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you. — Mike Thompson

You can't underestimate rest. Sometimes in tennis we don't realize that to rest your body is as important as it is to practice. We are traveling so much, all year, in different conditions, different courts, different surfaces, different balls - so we always have to adapt. — Stanislas Wawrinka

Okay boy's and girls, let's learn how to fight. -Sergeant Til — C.D. Sutherland

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world. — Sarah Orne Jewett

Wealthy people always know the exact value of their time. — Marshall Sylver

Of course, Jules was not a wolf. She was an elephant. But Jules was a very young toy and she had never been to school to learn the difference. — Julie B. Campbell

Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown. — Peter Kropotkin

In 2013, Samsung accounted for about 20 percent of South Korea's total business profits. Samsung Electronics, just one of scores of subsidiaries, accounts for close to 15 percent of the total shares in the South Korean stock market. But you don't need to know these figures to get a feel for Samsung's hold on the country. — Kim Young-ha

The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated. — William Steig

I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticizing it. The EEC is free Europe getting together. Had we had some vision like that after the First World War, we might never had the Second. My son does not have to go and fight as his father had to fight. Surely that is the most valuable thing of all, the reason for keeping Europe together. — Margaret Thatcher