Khanates Def Quotes & Sayings

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox ... — Stanislaw Lem

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. — Oliver Cromwell

Modesty is the color of virtue. — Diogenes

If God made Adam and Eve, they had children ... wait a minute ... that means someone banged their sister! — Carlos Mencia

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it — Judith McNaught

Mother could be fiercer than the Warrior when her children are in danger. — George R R Martin

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. — Alfred North Whitehead

That's when I began drinking coffee. I was hung up on every little thing. I loved Paris, and felt straightaway at home. Not to be grandiose, but it seemed like all the city had been waiting for me. — Rosecrans Baldwin

I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre. — Brigitte Nielsen

The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. — Henry Beston

...books change lives, in big ways and small, from the simple desire to spend a few quiet hours in a comfy chair, swept away by a story, to the profound realization that the reader is not alone in the world, that there is someone else like him or her, someone who has faced the same fears, the same confusions, the same grief, the same joys. Reading is a way to live more lives, to experience more worlds, to meet people we care about and want to know more about, to understand others and develop a compassion for what they confront and endure. It is a way to learn how to knit or build a house or solve an equation, a way to be moved to laughter and wonder and to learn how to live...in all our fascination with technology we've forgotten that a simple book can make a difference. — Roxanne J. Coady

The only person I really believe in is me. — Debbie Harry

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam. — Orson Scott Card

The lying started in the eighth grade. Possibly it had begun earlier, and I simply hadn't noticed. — Anita Shreve