Allofcraigs Quotes & Sayings

I always keep my mind open. For me, a mind has to work like like a parachute, works only if it's open. — Rickson Gracie

I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him. — Elizabeth Gilbert

At the end of the day aren't we all strangers hoping to find the one person who can see the beauty we each posses on the inside? — Glenna Maynard

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism. — Plautus

Kayden can't love me because he doesn't understand love. He understands pain and hurt and disappointment, but not love. I know right then that I can't tell him how I'm feeling, but I can show him. — Jessica Sorensen

History was always buried deep, even when you know where to look. And it was hard to excavate it without damaging it. Brushes and cotton swabs, not chisels and pickaxes. Slow work. You had to like doing it. — Maggie Stiefvater

I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole. — Peter Jacobsen

Conrad,Nabokov, Naipaul - these are writers known for having managed to migrate between languages, cultures, countries, continents, even civilizations. Their imaginations were fed by exile, a nourishment drawn not through roots but through rootlessness. My imagination however, requires that I stay in the same street, in the same house, gazing at the same view. Istanbul's fate is my fate. I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am. — Orhan Pamuk

God's purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is. — Ann Voskamp

We have always had war," Terry explained ... "It is human nature."
"Human?" asked Ellador.
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"Are some of the soldiers women?" she inquired.
"Women! Of course not! They are men; strong, brave men ... "
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"Then why do you call it 'human nature?' she persisted. "If it was human wouldn't they both do it?"
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"Do you call bearing children 'human nature'? she asked him. "It's woman nature," he answered. "It's her work."
"Then why do you not call fighting 'man nature'
instead of human? — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York. — Malachy McCourt

You need more than just a great idea. Your product or service must add an enormous amount of value to some industry. If the idea isn't completely new, it has to be better, cheaper, or more efficient than what we already have. — Jose Ferreira

Are destroyed by their own complacency. — Anonymous

Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion. — Lanza Del Vasto