Katharine Kerr famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

  • Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

  • This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

  • The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

  • Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

  • Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

  • Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?

  • You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover.

  • Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

  • CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.