Kornis Quotes & Sayings

Life is a series of hard and easy runs. — Hal Higdon

The first century of the plague had seen the country turned upside down. In the twilight years of Edward III it seemed that nothing could damage the greatness of the Plantagenet royal estate. But the world of the village went from impoverished claustrophobia to traumatized infection. A hundred years later, everything had been upended, courtesy of King Death. — Simon Schama

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad. — Aravind Adiga

So we've pulled the chute, and we're drifting, riding the sky. It's just you and me. You can hear me now that we're falling like this, remember? I tell you that I don't want this to end. I don't want to land and reach the real world, because I like our world up here better. — Jessica Park

When it comes to killing my sin, I don't wait for the miracle, I act the miracle. — John Piper

Susan had never before come across the idea that you could rise in Society by, as it were, gaining marks, especially since such noblemen as she'd met in her father's house had used neither serviette nor napkin but a state of mind, which was Drop it on the floor, the dogs'll eat it. — Terry Pratchett

I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about. — Julian Sands

Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is the last socially acceptable prejudice. — Bernice Sandler

Goodbye don't mean gone. — Ray Charles

A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed. — Paul Engle

When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly host. — Marcel Proust

That I am responsible for how I have been feeling, not only for what I have been doing. — The Arbinger Institute