Karin > Karin's Quotes

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“It is, of course, obvious that speed, or height of fall, is not in itself injurious … but a high rate of change of velocity, such as occurs after a 10 story fall onto concrete, is another matter.”
― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“In a world in which everyone worked short hours, had enough to eat, lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motor-car or even an aeroplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared.”
― Anonymous

“The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim – for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives – is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.”
― Anonymous

“men who pay in promises should have at least the sense to promise more.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“Their rusted hinges let out a pair of screams, for all those who might have slept through the breaking of the lock.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“They don't imagine how much I know.”
― Anonymous

“That was meant to be a threat." "I took it literally. Forgive me. I must have your help." It came to that. Harlan's help must be had. Was he mad? Was Harlan mad? Did madness have meaning? Or anything at all, for that matter?”
― Anonymous

“He turned to look at her, and she was smiling at him. It was Noys as she had been, and his own heart beating as it had used to.”
― Anonymous

“If you liked it, then you should have moved a mass inside its Roche limit.”
― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student

“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
― Richard Bach

“Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
― Richard Bach

“That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story – A New York Times Bestselling Philosophical Memoir of Hope and Intimacy

“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”
― Richard Bach, One

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“O senhor prendeu-me na sala de controle, deixou-me indefeso até que tudo estivesse terminado, pensou o senhor. - Você disse que estava com medo de que algo pudesse sair errado com você; que você pudesse não ser capaz de levar adiante a sua parte. - Isto, por intenção, era uma ameaça. - Eu a interpretei literalmente. Desculpe-me. Eu preciso de sua ajuda.”
― Anonymous

“Someday I’ll catch that man without a quotation and he’ll look undressed,” the Duke said.”
― Anonymous

“The answer lies in a phenomenon called regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives