Klavan Books Quotes & Sayings

On a snowy winter morning, Martise of Neith - once of Asher - opened a gate and awakened darkness. — Grace Draven

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska. — Sam Barry

There are no shortcuts in evolution. — Louis D. Brandeis

Don't be the best in the world. Be the best for the world. — Dewitt Jones

The encounter did not leave behind with Chief Inspector Heat that satisfactory sense of superiority the members of the police force get from the unofficial but intimate side of their intercourse with the criminal classes, by which the vanity of power is soothed, and the vulgar love of domination over our fellow creatures is flattered as worthily as it deserves. — Joseph Conrad

Because there wasn't anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen table
with a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn't happened, though. At least not yet. — Ann Gimpel

The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind. — Sharon Gannon

The surest mark of true conversion is humility. — J.C. Ryle

What creates reality is not reality, but you. — Bentinho

I had been as sober as the day of a court-ordered drug test — Katie McGarry

Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds. — Helen Gahagan Douglas

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.' — Jared Harris

People who are making decisions about the future often don't have access to some of the best ideas in the company, which may be at the periphery or at lower levels. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A typical workday for me is getting up at about 5:00, 5:15 in the morning, getting some coffee or tea as quickly as possible, and then getting to my desk. And ideally, I'll start writing around 5:30, 5:45, and I'll write for three, four hours, and then I'll take a break, and read over what I write. Maybe about lunchtime, I'll go exercise or get out into the day. Then I'll either read over what I wrote the day before and quit work around 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon and spend some time with my kids. — Eric Schlosser

The megalopsychos cannot let anyone else, except a friend, determine his life. For that would be slavish; and this is why all flatterers are servile and inferior people are flatterers. — Aristotle.