Chiverton Cross Quotes & Sayings

We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved. — Sogyal Rinpoche

If we think of belonging only as membership in a club, organization, or church, we miss the point. Belonging is the risk to move beyond the world we know, to venture out on pilgrimage, to accept exile. And it is the risk of being with companions on that journey, God, a spouse, friends, children, mentors, teachers, people who came from the same place we did, people who came from entirely different places, saints and sinners of all sorts, those known to us and those unknown, our secret longings, questions, and fears. — Diana Butler Bass

I don't know what game you and geek boy are playing, Gautier. But you get in my way as I leave and I'll wipe my boots on your balls. (Brett)
Before he realized what was happening, Simi had taken Brett's hand and squeezed it so hard Nick heard the bones break.)
Nick is a friend of the Simi's. You threaten him and you make the Simi really unhappy and want to eat your head. Trust me, not something you want me to think about. Now go away mean person or the Simi will tell akri she don't know what happened to you and your masticated form. Not that I like to lie, but there are deceptions to every rule. And you're about to become one. Now get in there and be quiet. (Simi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Write about what you don't know about what you know. — Eudora Welty

We're all a bit of a dick. It's the human condition. Nothing to be afraid of. — Steve Coogan

Of course, she didn't care about me. She mostly made fun of me. But that just made me love her even more. She was out of my league, and even though I was only twelve, I knew that I'd be one of those guys who always fell in love with the unreachable, ungettable, and uninterested. — Sherman Alexie

You don't need a shooting star, you can do it yourself. — Jessica Watson

China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision. — Evan Osnos

Any spot on this planet was going to be infinitely better than the world they'd left behind. For the first time in his life, he was free. — Kass Morgan

Now the poles have gotten so far apart that anyone who isn't officiating a gay wedding at a Whole Foods is considered to be to the right of Rush Limbaugh. — Adam Carolla

You don't have to be embarrassed about falling all over me. I'm sure you must have used up your coordination in dance class." -Mica — Bethany Neal

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today, — Jack Kornfield

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. — Peggy O'Mara

When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him, my capacity for joy increases. The more I "have" Jesus, the deeper my enjoyment of him. He increases my desire for those things that are good, adds value to that which is benign, and diminishes the strength of the negative (the evil) that threatens to throttle me. My dependence on material values and experiences as the means by which I define or please myself decreases. — Greg Paul

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet. — Joni Mitchell