Kokoshnik Quotes & Sayings

You have to be prepared to die before you can begin to live. — Fred Shuttlesworth

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. — Saint Ambrose

That's one of our speculations, by the way. That the prior version of history that this one overwrote was horrible. Complete geopolitical mayhem; half of New York City is underwater. The United States is headed toward civil war, or ruled by an artificial-intelligence construct, or some such other thing. Real end-of-days stuff. That the instances of ourselves who existed in that history figured out what we have: that the invention of the causality violation device was the cause. That in that prior version of history, Rebecca did not die in a car accident. That she went back to the past on a mission, as a volunteer, well aware of her sacrifice. — Dexter Palmer

Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment. — Alonzo King

Dancing in speakeasies was a job, and none of us knew for sure who were gangsters. No one told us, so how could we know? My mother used to come and take me home. We thought nothing of walking home together at two in the morning. — Ruby Keeler

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way. — Alan Perlis

but i was young, and i got so cross. in the early days we made up easily. had fun making up, in fact. — Elizabeth Noble

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted
not my hand held by an old smoothie. — William Safire

I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school. — Pawel Szajda

We've also been forced to learn something rather more surprising: no one is particularly interested. — Alain De Botton

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours. — George Bernard Shaw

I curtsied. 'Thank you, Mr. Stansbury. And I apologize for my lack of grace.'
He bowed. 'Never apologize for being courageous, Miss Withersby. — Siri Mitchell

You can't get hurt skiing, unless you fall — Warren Miller

Whenever my behavior is biologically determined or socially conditioned, it is not truly free. To act freely, according to Kant, is to act autonomously. And to act autonomously is to act according to a law I give myself - not according to the dictates of nature or social convention. — Michael J. Sandel