Chrestensen Quotes & Sayings

A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be firm rules that could always be relied on. Or they might be ideals that could often be followed without thinking but that sometimes conflicted with one another. — Philip Kitcher

When the Lord is your confidence you will never find yourself at all deceived by the ways and speech of men and women, though they be very brilliant, if they speak outside of the Principle that demonstrates healing and goodness and life. — Emma Curtis Hopkins

Just say yes, Lily. Why try avoiding the unavoidable?"
Ah, why indeed! — Ramona Wray

You know who you belong to, Jack?"
"Yeah."
"Yourself."
He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. — Emma Donoghue

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.' — James Scott Bell

the long sorrow of the color red. — Naomi Shihab Nye

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce. — Patti Smith

Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.' — James Wolcott

I wondered whether water is a mirror for our darker emotions as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and connects you to your own thoughts. — Wallace J. Nichols

Nature practices deceptions in every angle. Evolution will create a being for any niche that can be found, no matter how unlikely. When — Jeff VanderMeer

The law proposed by Valerius forbade that anyone who had appealed should be scourged with rods or beheaded, but if the law was disregarded on either point it did no more than term it 'a wicked deed'. Such was the sense of shame amongst men at that time that this, I suppose, was thought to impose a legal sanction which would be sufficiently binding. Today hardly anyone would seriously utter such a threat. — Livy

All of us can do what we like."
"No we can't. You're stupid if you think so. — David Almond

I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas. — Burt Ward

I couldn't get my head around it. She'd lied to me! She had lied to me! Me! I was supposed to be the liar in this relationship! — Steve Toltz

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise. — Robert Fritz