Karen Hesse Quotes

Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.

Karen Hesse

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• My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Happy
  • Risk
  • Failure

• Their crew for 'Arrow' is just one of the most wonderful crews that I've worked with. I know that actors say that all the time, and it sounds like trash coming out of my own mouth, but it's so true.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Time
  • True
  • Know

• I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Country
  • Think
  • Change

• It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Love
  • Wind

• I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • End
  • Start

• The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • World
  • Me
  • Fashion

• 'I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen...' He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, 'Father of Sabriel.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Art
  • Father
  • Rest

• Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • English

• I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Up

• I've got a superstar like Usher singing bachata, a tune featuring Lil Wayne. I'm offering people more than just bachata. That captures a new audience that would listen to bachata because Usher is singing.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Singing

• We try really hard to avoid those conventional experiences, these adrenaline rush, anger, competition, violence. We intentionally avoid that. We try to create a game that's serene and tranquil and filled with love.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Game
  • Violence
  • Competition

• Obviously, a big part of the American Revolution was there would be no Church of England the way there was in England. There was a specific attempt not to have an established church.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • American
  • Church
  • Revolution

• But I would bet that the euro continues to exist and that its importance as a global currency will likely increase.

  

  Peer Steinbruck

• It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Dream
  • Romantic

• I'm an early riser. I work out really hard. I push myself; I get my job done, and at the end of the day, there's a Guinness waiting for me.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Work
  • Done
  • Job

• When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • School

• I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.

  

  Kevin Durant

• I would be on the 'anti-reality' show. I can't stand reality TV. I can tell you one that I absolutely would not be on, and that's 'Dancing With the Stars.' If you ever see me on that show, just please understand my family is starving to death, and things are really bad in the Church household.

  

  Eric Church
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Death

• I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Chess

• Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Human Race

• All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Picture
  • Person
  • Married

• I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Depression
  • Sailor

• It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Voice
  • Greek
  • Accident

• Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Flame
  • Extinguished
  • Utterly