Dark Timekeeper Quotes

#1. The demands that good people make are upon themselves;
Those that bad people make are upon others.

Confucius

#2. I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Is that okay?" he asks, backing down a little.
"How about Tuesday?" I say.
"Wednesday." His seriousness is cracking.
"Tuesday and a half."
"Tuesday and three-quarters.

David Levithan

#4. The memories were so vivid that the book dropped from my hand and my eyes filled with tears.

Amitav Ghosh

#5. Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

Charley Reese

#6. Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a 'trading state,' the model for export-led growth. It is not clear that the old export model of growth will be sustainable in a more 'balanced' global economy that does not rely so heavily on the U.S. consumer.

Robert Zoellick

#7. After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.

Jean Cocteau

#8. I'm not going to stay sround to send reapers to kill people who are too scared, or frightened, or JUST PLAIN STUPID to find joy in life.

Kim Harrison

#9. Do you still play the accordian?

Markus Zusak

#10. Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

Anthony De Mello

#11. In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist
but I found I had nothing to say.

Victor Borge