Klara Quotes & Sayings

That's how kings are made, my brush-tailed girl - they pick a place, shove a stick in it, call themselves King and wait to see if someone gets angry about it. No one has gotten angry so far, so that makes the otters mine. — Catherynne M Valente

Really, what a strange man he is, thought klara, with that aching feeling of loneliness which always overcomes us when someone dear to us surrenders to a daydream in which we have no place. — Vladimir Nabokov

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith. — Dean Cain

Still, he could feel a fine cord stretched between them, a thin luminous fiber that ran from his chest all the way across the continent and forked into theirs. Never before had he lived through a fever without his mother; when he'd been sick in Debrecen she'd taken the train to be with him. Never had he finished a year at school without knowing that soon he'd be home with his father, working beside him in the lumberyard and walking through the fields with him in the evening. Now there was another filament, one that linked him to Klara. And Paris was her home, this place thousands of kilometers from his own. He felt the stirring of a new ache, something like homesickness but located deeper in his mind; it was an ache for the tie when his heart had been a simple and satisfied thing, small as the green apples that grew in his father's orchard. — Julie Orringer

Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it? — Christine O'Donnell

Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies. — Joan Of Arc

Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable from it. I might show that it is fatal to religion and morality; that it tends to debase the mind, and corrupt its noblest springs of action. I might show that it relaxes the sinews of industry, clips the wings of commerce, and introduces misery and indigence in every shape. — Alexander Hamilton

I wasn't enjoying the conversation that much. I didn't want to prolong it. It is the sort of man-to-woman infight that I try whenever possible to ascribe to premenstrual tension. I like the theory, but unfortunately in this case I happened to know that it didn't account for Klara, and of course it leaves unresolved at any time the question of how to account for me. — Frederik Pohl

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer. — Helen Thomas

When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 next to an ad with Klara Wester from 2009, you don't see a 20-year difference between the pictures. — Paul Marciano

It occurred to him that, much in the way one experiences a brightening when walking beneath a cherry tree in bloom,so too did Klara generate and throw light. — Patrick DeWitt

Hindsight's a wonderful thing," Klara said. "If we all had it there would be no history to write about. — Kate Atkinson

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve. — Stephen King

You have long since known that safe is a film skin thing — Klara Piechocki

Klara Sztucinski, and Elliott Kellman. The administrative — David Allen

And yet, in the end, did Klara Hitler's sickly son ever fire a gun? One hollow, hateful little an. One last awful thought: all the harm he ever did was done for him by others. — Mary Doria Russell

Relax, Klara, you can finish your one-woman book club as soon as somebody gets home. — Brian K. Vaughan

Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way. — Jack Kevorkian

This is Klara. She's yours to do with as you will. Here.' He gave me a small, silver handled whip. 'You might need this to remind her of that, though — K.A. Perkins

Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with. — Nigel Mansell

This may sound a cynical thing to say, but don't you think men sometimes leave difficulties to be solved by other people or to solve themselves? After — Barbara Pym

There were other things too, something resembling soggy cotton balls, and something else, like clumps of tangled hair, and all of that inhabited the noxious grass, ate it, crawled in it, intoxicated by its vapors, gave birth, and died, turning into muck. It was all grass, if you stopped to think about it, all flesh was as grass and nothing more. Blind — Mariam Petrosyan

He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself. — Julie Orringer

When you spend weeks on end close to another person, so close that you know every hiccough, every smell and every scratch on the skin, you either come out of it hating each other or so deep in each other's gut that you can't find a way out. Klara and I were both. Our little love affair had turned into a Siamese-twin relationship. There wasn't any romance in it. There wasn't room enough between us for romance to occur. And yet I knew every inch of Klara, every pore, and every thought, far better than I'd known my own mother. And in the same way: from the womb out. I was surrounded by Klara — Frederik Pohl

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct. — Frederick Scott Oliver

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Alana, we are soldiers, not fucking damsels in distress. — Brian K. Vaughan

Anything that ties us to the world rather than drawing us closer to God is worldly. — Francena H. Arnold