Kompakt Quotes

#1. Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true

Pete Maravich

#2. Turns out that when you kill a god, people want to talk to you.

Kevin Hearne

#3. The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.

Rachel Caine

#4. It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#5. I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does.

Kristy McNichol

#6. The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Socrates

#7. It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny suspected that there would come a time in the not-too-distant future when he might develop a mysterious interest in them.

Eoin Colfer

#9. After the kiss, he said he'd been wanting to do it for a long time. I wonder how long. From the first second I saw you.

Kelly Moran

#10. We co-existed in peaceful detachment

Tsitsi Dangarembga

#11. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

N. Scott Momaday