Top 19 Koen Quotes
#1. I have this dream, she and I side by side in life, turning front to front in lovemaking, back to back in threat, protecting each other.
Karleen Koen
#2. Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#3. What do you know of love? It comes from being with someone, from facing life together! Life in its awfulness as well as its joy! You love a handsome face. Nothing more!
Karleen Koen
#4. Strange that one man's actions could touch so many other people, like a single, thoughtless breath of wind coming in an open window and blowing the playing cards every which way.
Karleen Koen
#5. What a web deceit made, its strands strangling the innocent and the guilty alike.
Karleen Koen
#6. In this life, many things happen in which we play a shameful part. Those of us who are strong forgive ourselves and go on. The weak wallow in their shame and allow it to devour them. There is no one of us without sin, child. There ought to be some comfort in that.
Karleen Koen
#7. He could live in this shifting place of betrayals within betrayals, of no loyalties honored, of the strong crushing the weak, no more. He preferred soldiering where you knew who your enemies were before the battle began.
Kathleen Koen
#8. Change is an easy thing to decide and a difficult thing to do. It is the day-to-day struggle of it that defeats people. Do not despair if old ways look good to you. Despair only if you fall into them too often.
Karleen Koen
#10. ...she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams.
Karleen Koen
#11. Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.
Karleen Koen
#13. When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
Mark Twain
#14. She is like a dark plum, he thought. She might be sweet when you bit into her, but it was just as likely she'd be bitter. He liked not knowing which side he'd taste.
Karleen Koen
#15. What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive.
Karleen Koen
#16. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." "If
Jane Austen
#17. All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.
Fanny Blankers-Koen
#18. There is no weakness in crying. If we do not sorrow over what hurts us, how do we ever go past it? I have shed many a tear myself, Barbara Devane, over what life has brought me. Compassion can come from great pain, if you allow it. But compassion takes courage. Bitterness is easier.
Karleen Koen
#19. The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.
William Ralph Inge
