Top 82 Katarina Quotes
#1. Do not push me," she warned in a shaky voice.
"Och, but I will." He shifted on his booted feet, pushed his hips harder against hers, until she felt a part of the wall. A part of him. "You lifted a blade to me, Katarina. I'm going to push you hard.
Kris Kennedy
#2. You do a great many things for strangers, Katarina. What are you willing to do for your friends?
Ally Carter
#3. Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.
Sarah Hughes
#4. Don't you ever think,' he asked cautiously, 'that it would be better to be a bully than to be bullied? At least that way no one could ever hurt you.'
Katarina turned to him in amazement. 'No,' she said definitively, shaking her head. 'No Pieter, I never think that, not for a moment.
John Boyne
#5. Sometimes you have to get close to the edge to remind yourself what life's about. It's not just about rules or what's on TV tonight. It's about taking a second to look up and admire the universe. - Katarina Kozlov
Dannika Dark
#6. The only way to live life is to live in the present. You can't put things off thinking you'll have time later. There may not be a later. - Katarina Kozlov
Dannika Dark
#7. I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world
I could have done anything, but I came back."
"You ran away, Katarina."
"And now I'm back."
"You're still running.
Ally Carter
#8. The kids kept walking, moving through the Henley's halls like a tide, but when Kat turned to leave, she walked in the opposite directions. She wasn't an ordinary kid, after all.
Katarina Bishop followed no one.
Ally Carter
#9. ...nowadays, everyone seemed to be dreaming of absolutely everything. Traveling and loving and having a fantastic career and a happy family, all while being thin, beautiful, popular, and in touch with their spiritual side.
Katarina Bivald
#10. Maybe it's that the past exists purely inside me. ... I've never cared about growing old, but right now, I do, slightly. It's not just that you have so much less future, but you also lose so much of your past, one death at a time.
Katarina Bivald
#11. how tragic it was that the written word was immortal while people were not,
Katarina Bivald
#12. When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
Katarina Witt
#13. I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse.
Kat cleared her throat.
"And women," he added. "Math women.
Ally Carter
#14. Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
Katarina Witt
#15. She had never been someone who believed you needed to have met in person to be friends - many of her most rewarding relationships had been with people who didn't even exist.
Katarina Bivald
#16. Just look educated. How hard can it be? Off you go." It
Katarina Bivald
#18. I know this is maybe naive, but one day I hope there will be peace in the world. Maybe one day the flowers will come back.
Katarina Witt
#19. We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books
Katarina Bivald
#20. If he had learned anything in life, it was that there were no happy endings. Life simply went on.
Katarina Bivald
#21. She always tried to be a fair person, so she made an effort not to judge him for it. But the fact remained that she was instinctively suspicious of a fit body. So often, they seemed to be entirely incompatible with other qualities--like intelligence or kindness or even basic politeness.
Katarina Bivald
#22. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt
#23. The real crime of these lists isn't that they leave deserving books off them, but that they make people see fantastic literary adventures as obligations. You
Katarina Bivald
#24. There is no vaccination against creative blocks. And nowhere else are they as devastating as in fashion which, unlike art or literature, dies the moment it is born.
Katarina West
#25. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books, at least to begin with.
Katarina Bivald
#26. Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
Katarina Witt
#27. When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
Katarina Witt
#28. Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.
Katarina Bivald
#29. I've no idea if she's ugly or beautiful; it's kind of irrelevant. As long as it's her.
Katarina Mazetti
#30. A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye.
Katarina Anhava
#31. Can you smell it? The scent of new books. Unread adventures. Friends you haven't met yet, hours of magical escapism awaiting you.
Katarina Bivald
#32. It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.
Katarina Witt
#33. I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
Katarina Witt
#35. I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.
Katarina Witt
#36. Never live your life according to the idiots' rules. Because they'll drag you down to their level, they'll win, and you'll have a damned awful time in the process.
Katarina Bivald
#37. It was just that she wondered when, exactly, she had become so old. Perhaps it had happened when her mother died. Some kind of generational shift. The mantel being passed.
Katarina Bivald
#39. Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
Katarina Witt
#40. Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
Katarina Witt
#41. Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt
#42. Maybe that proves I was right about books and people: books are fantastic and probably come into their own in a cabin in the woods, but how fun is it to read a fantastic book if you can't tell others about it, talk about it, quote from it constantly?
Katarina Bivald
#43. Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
Katarina Witt
#44. I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
Katarina Witt
#45. Isn't it funny... that you can be together with a man who is so wrong for you that afterward you've been cured of them.... You get them, you get cured, you move on.
Katarina Bivald
#46. A complete waste of time - doubting yourself. If you make the slightest mistake, someone else is sure to let you know about it.
Katarina Bivald
#47. Of course the edges of the wound struggle to close up
and the clock wants to be set going
(how awkward to be pointing permanently to half past one)
amputated limbs feel phantom pain
Katarina Mazetti
#48. On most guys, Hale's smile would have looked sheepish. On him, it was so roguishly charming that Kat's heart actually skipped a beat.
Ally Carter
#49. People were strange like that. They could be completely uninterested in you, but the moment you picked up a book, you were the one being rude.
Katarina Bivald
#50. Very few people had sense enough to appreciate silence.
Katarina Bivald
#51. The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
Katarina Witt
#52. As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.
Katarina Bivald
#53. It's every little girl's dream," she said. "Interpol surveillance. And kittens.
Ally Carter
#54. As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
Katarina Witt
#55. This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it - so few people, so many opinions?
Katarina Bivald
#56. When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.
Katarina Witt
#57. What the hell is life if it's not chores and working and making dinner, and then starting all over again?
Katarina Bivald
#58. surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing." ~Eckhart Tolle Yes,
Katarina Ilic
#59. I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.
Katarina Witt
#60. The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.
Katarina Witt
#61. Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
Katarina Witt
#63. She had kept well behind the safety barrier her entire life, but now she was standing there at the edge of the precipice for the very first time, fumbling blindly with the realization that there were other ways to live, at how intense and rich life could be.
Katarina Bivald
#64. But on the upside, I guess we're getting ready to find out if you really only love me for my jet."
"I might love you for your jet," Gabrielle said, straight-faced.
He smiled a Kat. "What about you?"
"Yeah," Kat said, nodding. "I guess that is the question.
Ally Carter
#65. You should avoid being drawn into things, and especially into other people's business. ... If you're tough, and ballsy, and well... not as wimpish and idiotic as everyone else... shouldn't you offer people support? Don't you have kind of a moral obligation?
Katarina Bivald
#66. I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
Katarina Witt
#67. I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
Katarina Witt
#68. You know, life would be so much simpler if it weren't for all the people. ... People are overrated. I'm sure I would be able to deal with things much better if it weren't for them.
Katarina Bivald
#69. When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
Katarina Witt
#70. It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
Katarina Witt
#71. We, as citizens or members of people's organisations, can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn society into a democratic one.
Katarina Kruhonja
#72. Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
Katarina Witt
#73. I've always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction.
Katarina Bivald
#74. I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
Katarina Witt
#76. For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.
Katarina Bivald
#77. There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.
Katarina Bivald
#78. I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.
Katarina Witt
#79. As early as high school, she had realized that few people paid attention to you if you were hidden behind a book.
Katarina Bivald
#80. I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
Katarina Witt
#81. I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
Katarina Witt
#82. I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
Katarina Witt
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