Kirkenes Quotes & Sayings

Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority. — Johannes Scotus Eriugena

Mother! Katie remembered. She had called her own mother "mama" until the day she had told her that she was going to marry Johnny. She had said, "Mother, I'm going to marry ... " She had never said "mama" after that. She had finished growing up when she stopped calling her mother "mama." Now Francie ... — Betty Smith

Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair. — Wally Byam

With a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students — Gary Shteyngart

According to theism, if a universe is to have any probability of existing, this probability is dependent upon God's beliefs, desires and creative acts. But the Hartle-Hawking probability is not dependent on any supernatural considerations; Hartle and Hawking do not sum over anything supernatural in their path integral derivation of the probability amplitude. — Quentin Smith

You still may die in the Dregs."
Inej's dark eyes had glinted. "I may. But I'll die on my feet with a knife in my hand. — Leigh Bardugo

I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever. — Cristiano Ronaldo

The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong. — Robert Henri

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. — Northrop Frye

Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings. — Anne Lamott

See whether the law takes from some persons that which belongs to them, to give to others what does not belong to them. See whether the law performs, for the profit of one citizen, and, to the injury of others, an act that this citizen cannot perform without committing a crime. Abolish this law without delay; it is not merely an iniquity - it is a fertile source of iniquities, for it invites reprisals; — Frederic Bastiat

Cupid had struck his heart to the core but had forgotten to put even a mere scratch on his beloved's. — Jettie Necole