Kivernitikes Quotes & Sayings

Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life offered far too little of either, and far too much appalling mediocrity, which he thought hideous. — Lloyd Biggle Jr.

Burr had the dark and severe coloring of his Edwards ancestry, with black hair receding from the forehead and dark brown, almost black, eyes that suggested a cross between an eagle and a raven. Hamilton had a light peaches and cream complexion with violet-blue eyes and auburn-red hair, all of which came together to suggest an animated beam of light to Burr's somewhat stationary shadow. — Joseph J. Ellis

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice. — Lord Byron

I never say "get like me". I would hate for my competition to be on my level. In fact, stay exactly with what your doing. — Behdad Sami

When ... in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests? — Fyodor Dostoevsky

The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die. — J.D. Salinger

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting. — Robert Frost

If the 'effect' is experienced, [karmic] bondage is created. If one experiences the 'effects' alone by himself, the [karmic] bondage will not be sticky. If he involves another person in it, the karmic bondage will be sticky. — Dada Bhagwan

On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public. — Norman Cook

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking. — Anita Roddick

I called him Grandfather, because according to him you do not have to be of the same blood or same tribe to be a member of the same family, but in truth I should have called him Maman. He was the only mother I ever knew. — Isabel Allende

the prudent person neither neglects important commitments nor gets overextended. — William C. Mattison III