Karsa's Quotes

#1. If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

Catherine Booth

#2. Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.

Sue Grafton

#3. If you come to the window, and look through the other end, Karsa, you will see things far away drawn closer.' He scowled at her, and set the instrument down. 'If something is far away, I simply ride closer.

Steven Erikson

#4. The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

Jay Griffiths

#5. I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

Sam Shepard

#6. Ignorance is a bliss

John Green

#7. People come to films drowned in reality, leaving behind heart failures, cancer, failed marriages, bad jobs, mean bosses, and future sickness. What they need is not happy endings, but proper endings.

Ray Bradbury

#8. Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.

John Paul Stevens

#9. Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.

Isaac Asimov

#10. You know, after all these years, it's just like we are who we are and it's a struggle for me and sometimes I'm heavier and sometimes I'm thinner.

Carnie Wilson

#11. It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

Rick Scott

#12. Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Duke Ellington

#13. No-one chooses me. I do not give anyone that right. I am Karsa Orlong of the Teblor. All choices belong to me.

Steven Erikson

#14. Out onto the battered road, then, the city falling away behind them. After a time, Karsa glanced back and bared his teeth at her. 'Listen. That is better, yes?' 'I hear only the wind.' 'Better than ten thousand tireless contrivances.

Steven Erikson

#15. Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night

W.C. Fields

#16. I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.

Steven Erikson

#17. Do not allow me to forget you

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#18. Around Karsa Orlong, I suspect, only Karsa Orlong has his way.

Steven Erikson

#19. You have learned much, Karsa Orlong."
"I have, T'lan Imass. As you shall witness.

Steven Erikson

#20. First lesson when dealing with Karsa Orlong," she murmured. "Expect the unexpected.

Steven Erikson