Knodel Desk Quotes & Sayings

When in doubt do the right thing! — Carl Andrew Spaatz

I hope that's working like we wanted it to."
"It's a plan of yours, Kitty. I'm sure it's going to go haywire somewhere. — Gini Koch

Ah," cried she in her alarm, "I am betrayed! I am carried away and have fallen into the power of a merchant - I would die rather!" The King, however, seized her hand, and said, "I am not a merchant. I am a king, and of no meaner origin than thou art, and if I have carried thee away with subtlety, that has come to pass because of my exceeding great love for thee. The first time that I looked on thy portrait, I fell fainting to the ground." When the princess of the Golden Dwelling heard that, she was comforted, and her heart was inclined unto him, so that she willingly consented to be his wife. — Jacob Grimm

Depression is also smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky but - if that is the metaphor - you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud. — Matt Haig

Were you watching me sleep? Because I thought we agreed that's creepy. — Ilona Andrews

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities — David Mazzucchelli

For a fraction of a second, we were together, and it had felt divine. Not nice. Not safe. Not taken for granted. It was short and beautiful and painfully memorable. Like the tree I was obsessed with. — L.J. Shen

I stood up, and my pants ripped completely across the seam. It was inevitable, but for once in my life, my timing had been decent. — Joan Bauer

When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them. — Andy Stanley

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances. — Abraham Lincoln

A piece of bread,
some fresh water,
the shadow of a tree and your eyes, my beloved.
No sultan is happier than me,
no beggar more sad. — Omar Khayyam

I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending. — Larry Gelbart

The romantic love story is a paradoxical fusion of two extraordinarily potent messages. The first is that love, deep connection, is the most important, indeed the only truly important matter in the world. And the second is that true love cannot exist in this world. — Terrence Real

Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed. — Amadou Hampate Ba

She managed to come up with the kind of predictions that you can only understand after the thing has happened," said Anathema. "Like 'Do Notte Buye Betamacks.' That was a prediction for 1972. — Terry Pratchett