Book Crispin Quotes & Sayings

Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it. — David Baldacci

Time is priceless gift. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And she leaves. She opens the door and, without a backward glance, goes out and shuts the door. I stand at the window and watch her go. She vanishes in the shadow of a building. Hands resting on the sill, I gaze for the longest time at where she disappeared. Maybe she forgot something she wanted to say and will come back. But she never does. All that's left is an absence that's like a hollow space. — Haruki Murakami

If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment. — Chico Xavier

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that. — Brody Jenner

All I know is, unselfishness is the only moral principle," said Jessica Pratt, "the noblest principle and a sacred duty and much more important than freedom. Unselfishness is the only way to happiness. I would have everybody who refused to be unselfish shot. To put them out of their misery. They can't be happy anyway. — Ayn Rand

To me, true beauty isn't something that will wash off in the shower at the end of the day. It's something that's still there, before you go to bed and wake up in the morning. And, you know, they always say that's inner beauty, but it is. — Sandra Bullock

I like cats. They don't care if you love Jesus. — Miss Merikan

Book learning and accomplishment in the world mean nothing if you do not have compassion, Crispin. — Marguerite Poland

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come fromsuch goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner. — Anton Chekhov

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book. — Jessa Crispin

People cannot be molded like clay. — Louisa May Alcott