Kristofers In Sister Quotes & Sayings

In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up. Another guy comes up to him, pulls a long face, shakes his head, and says: I know just what you mean. — Milan Kundera

Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find. — Francois Magendie

Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself. — Pitbull

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. — Charles E. Wilson

I get more things wrong than I get right, but there's one thing I'm really damn good at, and that's loving you. I've loved you most of my whole life. Will you give me permission to love you the rest of it too? — Nicole Williams

I used mental illness as a springboard to rest of my life. — Clive Culverhouse

I don't know what the exact shape of my life will take--and what the days to come will bring--except i know that i am happy and my heart is still. I know that I have fallen in love with the word surrender and know that I can no longer live in disappointment — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous. — Charles Baudelaire

My whole life has been a battle lost on the map. Cowardice didn't even make it to the battlefield, where perhaps it would have dissipated; it haunted the chief of staff in his office, all alone with his certainty of defeat. He didn't dare implement his battle plan, since it was sure to be imperfect, and he didn't dare perfect it (though it could never be truly perfect), since his conviction that it would never be perfect killed all his desire to strive for perfection. Nor did it ever occur to him that his plan, though imperfect, might be closer to perfection than the enemy's. The truth is that my real enemy, victorious over me since God, was that very idea of perfection, marching against me at the head of all the troops of the world - in the tragic vanguard of all the world's armed men. — Fernando Pessoa

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions. — Sharon Creech

You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot. — Eartha Kitt

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason. — Joost Meerloo

The existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die. — Calvin Trillin

As to acknowledging that he was about to obtain a triumph with the ideas of another man, he never thought of such a thing. It is generally in perfect good faith that the jackdaw struts about in the peacock's feathers. — Emile Gaboriau

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions. — Luc De Clapiers