Stern Quotes

“I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“There are people who feel they should be with you, but something is preventing them from coming close. Please can you just lower the frequency of your stern looking face and smile...and they will make you their habit.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Dein Weg würde immer der meine sein. Du warst mein Fixstern und ich war deiner.”
― Maschenka Tobe, Wir waren die Kosmonauten

“The three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder. No key fits every lock.' Cardan gives us all a stern look, holding up a long-fingered hand with my stolen ruby ring still on one finger. 'Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Wie ich höre, zeigt auch der Himmel eine Leidenschaft für das Neue. Ein Stern wird müde, ein Stern zu sein, und er explodiert und wird eine Nova.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer, Shosha

“The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanor on the part of the spectators; as befitted a people amongst whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and the severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“For a second--a second that lasts infinite seconds--he turns his face away from the wind to meet my eye. He smiles, he smiles without worrying about the gap in his teeth, he smiles in a way that I know: he is free.”
― Kate Ellison, Notes from Ghost Town

“Is there a problem?” I said, closing my hand around the opening of my potato chips.
“Yes, in fact there is. Students aren't supposed to be up at this time.” He said sternly.
“I was hungry.” I frowned.”
― Bin Userkaf, Itchikan: 'til death do us part'

“De zon was een matrode schijf met een vurige rand om de bovenronding tegen een egaalgrijze lucht. Op het water wat rode slierten zoals schilders dat soms doen om weerspiegeling weer te geven. Ervoor vlogen grote sterns vissend heen en weer. Van een meter of tien lieten ze zich vallen, boorden het water in dat opspatte alsof er een steen in werd gegooid. Even later kwamen ze weer boven water. Kierrr... kierrik!”
― Jan Wolkers, De Onverbiddelijke Tijd