List of Topics starting with [K]

Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring!

When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.

Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.

From outside came a sudden and loud music of birds celebrating their existence.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

Burns hummed, meeting Ty's eyes and trying not to smile. "You want the CIA to believe that you mistook your partner for your prisoner, handcuffed ...

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Good," Lucas said. "And hey - relax. Gonna be all right." "No, it won't," she said. "I can almost guarantee that whatever it is, it ...

Kronos took the child in his arms and saw right away that Demeter was another goddess. She glowed with an aura even more powerful than ...

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because ...

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

One should not forget the sins of their forebears, but nor can one advance by paying witness only to the failings of the past. To ...

Though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy

God made us to crave - to desire eagerly, want greatly, and long for Him. But Satan wants to do everything possible to replace our ...

The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

When you open to the world, the world opens to you.

The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike minorities ...

During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from inside out as each young person encounters what is seeded in them and gifted ...

Don't use drowsy EYES to look at what Christ used a passionate BLOOD to do for you. Don't use a sluggish LEG to walk towards ...

When you have acceptance of who you are there is no need to discuss your past.

Besides, there are no secrets. Sooner or later the truth leaks out. That's one thing I've learned in this life.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

What isa promiseifnotyourhandin mine?

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who ...

She'd grown up in Martian gravity . She had to mass a hundred kilos at one g, easy.

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working ...

You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good.

You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm not going to ...

The goal of feminist spirituality has never been the simple substitution of Yahweh-with-a-skirt. Rather, it seeks, in all its diversity, to revitalize relational, body-honoring, cosmologically ...

I'm full of love, and nobody wants it

You know that you can't predict and you can't expect that you should have predicted. You do the best you can, as decently as you ...

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the art, ...

People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant ...

What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie.

Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out ...

Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that ...

What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.

If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.

We climbed slowly toward the greatest of our terrors of that time, we went to expose ourselves to fear and interrogate it.

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment.

The beauty of the earth is but a breath, and man is but a shadow. What sympathy should a holy preacher have with either?

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly ...

I warned you before not to marry him if he couldn't kiss you as I did. Now I can warn you that you'll never have ...

Boy I could do this forever; I truly enjoy bad guys.

It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in ...

I'm not fighting restraints or worrying about pleasing everyone. I've been able to carve my own niche in the marketplace, which is pretty cool. Obviously, ...

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is ...

Love is blind.""Love is Grim.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

I am not constructed for continued absences; I have never claimed to be constructed for them.

Shay strolled alongside me, humming 'Here Comes the Bride,' until I punched him in the kidney.

The truth of who you are and what you believe is projected in your behavior. Everything else, either positive or negative, is a mix of ...

Every instinct telling me to run. Every instinct, except for that one to hold or break, but never bend.

Nowhere on Earth was stupidity prized anymore.

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I ...

So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants ...

All exceptional people are, by definition, exceptions to the norm. If we insist on being ordinary, we can never be truly extraordinary.

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff ...

I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?

As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?

When I stood up there as a pinch hitter, I honestly believed I was the best hitter in the game. That's the only attitude to ...

A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other ...

[in the context of 1881] "Don't you want to get married and have babies? Mrs. Bergman used to say that women need-" "What women need ...

Do I strike you as a frivolous man, Kelly?"I look at him, sitting there in another thousand dollar suit. Pompous? Yes. Self-centered? Yes. Careless? "No.

Arthur stood alone in the centre of the ring of kings. In the flickering light of the Christ Mass candles, holding the sword easily by ...

Experiment with grounding yourself with who you are, not what you do.

The urge to know scrapes against the inability to know.

I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with ...

When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in ...

Semantics are just some antics used by the enemy to get us distracted and off course from the destiny and inheritance that God hand-picked and ...

The beginning's easy because it's like BOOM, some shit just happened. The ending's easy because POW, all the shit that happened just lead to this. ...

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

Who says that your thirties is when you're supposed to be done? I would like to know who made that rule!

This was beyond a joke. This had moved beyond foolishness, slipped over the line into genuine 24 karat Jesus-Christ-I-fucked-up-bigtime territory.

We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized.

Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got ...

Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

He found his aunt in the kitchen, and he grabbed her by the waist of her pants

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, ...

He was an underdog and a misfit, and that gave him the freedom to try things no one else even dreamt of.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

Now, I don't think I'm a stupid guy. I'm just an average guy who doesstupid things.

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

I do a lot of running. Bit of squash, bit of tennis. I don't like feeling out of shape.

The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement ...

Files are like contracts. No one really needs them until there's a problem!

History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.

The wild ivy grows wherever it pleases.

We solve crimes, but we'll never solve crime.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive ...

We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.