Kontak Quotes & Sayings

But
no
splendid is not the right word. they are splendid, but they are
they are so friendly. Oh dear!' she said, and looked up at him, half laughing, half embarassed. 'How childish that sounds! But so many of the beatiful things in the rooms beneath us
push you away
tell you to stand back
order you to admire and be abashed. These
these draw you in. These make you want to stay and
and have them for company. Yes, that's right. But I
I am still making them sould like a
like
sort of comfortable, though, am I not? Like a bowl of warm bread and milk and an extra pillos, and that's not it at all. They are not comfortable. Indeed, I feel that if I lived with them for long, I should have to learn to be ... better, or greater, myself. If this Queen of the Heavenly Mountain looked down at me from my bedroom wall every day, soon I should have to go looking for the path to her domain. I wouldn't be able to help myself. — Robin McKinley

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs — M. Scott Peck

ARTICLE THAT SAID in the next five years we will become a conglomerate of the people we hang out with. The article went so far as to say relationships were a greater predictor of who we will become than exercise, diet, or media consumption. — Donald Miller

I learned from you that I do not crumble. I learned that strength is somthing you choose. — Miley Cyrus

The shame, the roused feeling of exposure acted on his brain, made him heavy, unutterably heavy. — D.H. Lawrence

A hard life is not a punishment, but rather an opportunity. — Brian L. Weiss

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth. — Jane Jacobs

If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. — Douglas MacArthur

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business. — Ron Wyden

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World! — Martin Luther King Jr.

In his life so far he had known only the kind of doubt that is calculated and secure. He had known only suspicion, cynicism, probability - never the fearful unraveling that comes when one ceases to trust in one's own trusting power; never the dread panic that follows this unraveling; never the dull void that follows last of all. — Eleanor Catton

Did folks know that the tax to fund the program [Social Security] only hits salaries up to $110,000? That means that if you make a million bucks, about 90% of your salary is tax free when it comes to the payroll tax that funds Soc Sec. That ain't right. — Jared Bernstein