Kurathi Costume Quotes & Sayings

There was only one thing emptier than having lived without love, and that was having lived without pain. — Jo Nesbo

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them. — Leighton Meester

Patiently, more gentle than rain, she made me clean, while I drifted, my eyes closed. — Jim Butcher

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. — Gloria Steinem

It pains me to think how much you are worth now."
"I can't tell you that. If you can count it, you haven't got any. — Jeffrey Archer

If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles. — Tupac Shakur

I don't care what your nose says! The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich!"
"Meatloaf sandwiches are good! But this is a half-blood scent, I swear. They are on board!"
"Bah, your brain isn't on board! — Rick Riordan

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The beaches. In literally hundreds of instances, a vessel's ignorance of her longitude led swiftly to her destruction. Launched on a mix of bravery and greed, the sea captains of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries relied on "dead reckoning" to gauge their distance east or west of home port. The captain would throw a log overboard and observe how quickly the ship receded from this temporary guidepost. He noted the crude speedometer reading in his ship's logbook, along with the direction of travel, which he took from the stars or a compass, and the length of time on a particular course, counted with a sandglass or a pocket watch. Factoring in the effects of ocean currents, fickle winds, and errors in judgment, he then determined his longitude. He routinely missed his mark, of course - searching — Dava Sobel