Krivak Quotes

#1. Krivak slammed the hatch shut and waited for the depth gauge to show the ship coming shallow, listening to the other missile launches. What a beautiful sound, he thought. The fourth-launched Mark 98 Tigershark torpedo struggled to an angry consciousness, its

Michael DiMercurio

#2. I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.

Dorothy Wordsworth

#3. Someone please tell me that we're not seriously having a friggin' debate over the genius of 'Karma Chameleon' at seven o'clock in the morning? (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

Bruce Lee

#5. From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth
her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance of beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Like the body, courage, too, is a thing weakened, especially when we are young and invincible. We can't give one the rest it needs and expect the other to protect us. Don't anger Nature with talk of wishing she had chosen differently. See to your own nature.

Andrew Krivak

#7. Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death - We die whene'er we think of it!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#8. Like a couple that communicates by intention nearly as much as by word, so in tune are they to each other and their surroundings.

Andrew Krivak

#9. I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.

Andrew Krivak

#10. I had never seen anyone fight and I had never been taught to defend myself. But I knew hurt and never wondered that day what it was I had to do if I didn't want to be hurt again.

Andrew Krivak

#11. Each believed that God was on his side, for no one raises a hand without convincing himself first that he is right.

Andrew Krivak

#12. It turned out I wasn't dying on the outside. I was only dying on the inside, where nobody could see.

Marisa Reichardt

#13. I was once told that sometimes out of limitation comes our greatest strength.

Carol McKay

#14. Even when alcoholics' brains were changed through surgery, it wasn't enough. The old cues and cravings for rewards were still there, waiting to pounce. The alcoholics only permanently changed once they learned new routines that drew on the old triggers and provided a familiar relief.

Charles Duhigg

#15. What is left to be afraid of?' And he said, 'The possibility that a life itself may prove to be the most worthy struggle.

Andrew Krivak

#16. In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

Marcus Sakey