Kriekebiche Quotes & Sayings

Life is a long drop down, Marcus. The most important thing is knowing how to fall. — Joel Dicker

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf. — Laura Hillenbrand

I wonder if the real measure of "home" is the degree to which you can leave it alone. Maybe appreciating a house means knowing when to stop decorating. Maybe you've never really lived there until you've thrown its broken pieces in the garbage. Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the easy part. The hard part is what's right in front of you. The hard part is learning how to hold the title to your very existence, to own not only property, but also your life. The hard part is learning not just how to be but mastering the nearly impossible art of how to be at home. — Meghan Daum

Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them. — George Meredith

Adversity shows our true character. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible. — Douglas McIlroy

So that's how you do it, I thought while exiting my little office. You get on with life by facing it. — Betty Halbreich

Given the central position that the Morality of Reward and Punishment has in the conservative moral system, it is no surprise that conservatives in most cases prefer retribution over restitution as a form of justice, as a way of balancing the moral books. It is therefore no surprise that conservatives are in favor of the death penalty. It is a form of retribution, a life for a life. Liberals, — George Lakoff

Black mail I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth. Black Mail House is what I call the place with the door, in consequence. — Robert Louis Stevenson

One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible. — Paulo Coelho

In absence, presence. In death, life. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Whatever you do, don't be another brick in the wall! — Hank Moody

I think professional cosmonaut trainer in fact said that we are the only two [with Damian Kulash ] he found fit to be astronauts, which is ridiculous because we are far from fit from being astronauts. So you can imagine what was going on up there. — Trish Sie

That which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder. — Marianne Moore