Kruppe Quotes

#1. There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.

Steven Erikson

#2. The spokesman smiled. Ah, but, Kruppe, Gifts are not easily attained, nor are Virtues, nor are Doubts easily overcome, and Hungers are ever the impetus to climbing.

Steven Erikson

#3. Beneficial indeed," Kruppe said, gratefully accepting the earthenware mug. "Kruppe has learned the value of modern language. Such long-lipped dribbles common to those ancient scholars are a curse Kruppe is thankful to find extinct in our time.

Steven Erikson

#4. Kruppe nodded. Kruppe is no fool, K'rul. He openly opposes no one, and he finds power a thing to be avoided at all costs.

Steven Erikson

#5. Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.

Steven Erikson

#6. Barring the necessary brains, of course," Kruppe said, "which is my true skill - though one such as Coll would never understand such abilities, alien as they are to him." Coll

Steven Erikson

#7. The final aspect of Kruppe to complete this dream's array of those faces facing him which are Kruppe's own. Or so you would proclaim. You are Humility but, as everyone knows, Humility has no place in Kruppe's life, remember that. So here you will stay.

Steven Erikson

#8. Precipitous creature,' Kruppe muttered, reaching for the mug of wine the man had left behind. 'Ah, look at this,' he said, frowning up at Crokus, 'nigh two-thirds full. A potential waste!' Kruppe drank it down in one swift gulp, then sighed. 'Said potential averted, Dessembrae be praised.

Steven Erikson

#9. These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.

Michael Bloomberg

#10. There is no point in arguing with stupid, they will drag you down and beat you with experience every time.

Kirsty Dallas

#11. A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation.

Misty Hyman

#12. I have to thank the guy who fired me because he was also the guy who hired me.

Serge Savard

#13. The narrative compression of storytelling, especially in the movies, beguiles us with happy endings into forgetting that sustained stress is corrosive of feeling. It's the great deadener. Those moments of joyful release from terror are not so easily had.

Ian McEwan

#14. What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.

Catherynne M Valente

#15. In this world, there is life and death; he who misses the life shall never die anymore, because he is already a dead!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation. But when we're talking about the 21st Century and those industries that are gonna take us forward, it won't be coal.

Richard Di Natale

#17. Fateful encounters with a cruel world reveal our character. No human is immune from heartbreaking loss. Regardless of our socioeconomic status, eventually everybody shall suffer a grievous personal loss, a body blow that inflicts pain of inexpressible magnitude.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. If need be, the round man can prove a most blunt barrier.
Just ask the man with the hammer.

Steven Erikson

#19. Mercedes is a pretty princess

Melissa Horacek

#20. The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

M.J. Rose

#21. If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your denstination.

Paulo Coelho