Kathryn Berla > Kathryn's Quotes

“The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told!”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I know it isn’t cruelty or shame that characterises the human race. It’s forgiveness that makes us what we are.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.”
― Gregory David Roberts

“It isn’t a secret, unless keeping it hurts.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Love, like respect, isn’t something you get; it’s something you give.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare from heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I took myself—secretly, secretly—very seriously! I knew I was a writer. I didn’t know how hard it would be. But no one knows that; and that does not matter.)”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“I don’t know, Pierce. But I do know that when men are frightened and discontented they gather around any man who is not afraid.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Angry Wife