Koll Quotes & Sayings

Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking. — Matthew De Abaitua

There are faults we would fain pardon. — Horace

If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger than his patience, then he is like a devil. If his desire for food, drink and sex is stronger than his patience, then he is no better than an animal. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go. — Sophia Amoruso

All my life, all I'd ever heard was: Emily's so shy, Emily's so quiet, Emily's so clever. Thinking back on it now, I don't know if I was ever any of those things, or if I just became shy and quiet and clever because everyone said I was. — Tanya Byrne

Don't think because I like to tease you that I don't take you seriously," he said in a quiet voice. "It is an honor to know what's in your heart, Marianne. — Julianne Donaldson

Why do you hate her, Emily?"
"For reminding me that I did this to myself. — Tanya Byrne

To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois. — Maureen Howard

What I mean is, one can't help one's fears. The question isn't if you're a fellow who cries in the night before a big engagement - and I knew a damned brave man who did exactly that, regularly. It's whether you pick yourself up the next day. — K.J. Charles

I knew those feelings of wanting to be with another brother were not dead; they were just asleep. — J.L. King

Doctor Gilyard was right, Juliet and I do have a lot in common. She lost her mother, I lost my mother. She lost her father, I lost my father. She had to start again, I had to start again. She had to pretend to be someone else, I had to pretend to be someone else. But where she was better for it, I was worse. Where she used what happened to make her stronger, I held on to it. I let it distil into something filthy and black. And I hated her for that.
Hated her. — Tanya Byrne

While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms. — Stanley B. Prusiner

I'm a man." Koll's shoulders sagged. "When did that happen?" "It just happens." "I wish I knew what it meant, being a man." "Guess it means something different for each one of us. The gods know I'm no sage, but if I've realized anything, it's that life isn't about making something perfect. — Joe Abercrombie

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came. — Ian McKellen

My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief. — H. Rap Brown

I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion. — Tyson Fury

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God. — Pharrell Williams

Pain and suffering
Is inevitable in this world
Yet we choose to survive.
I'm not scared of anyone anymore
And I can say
I've learned all I can from mice
Be a lion when you talk to me. — Monique Koll

I am strong and skilled in battle, and I know how to defend what's mine." - Koll in Mating Season — Allie Ritch