Christilot Hanson Quotes & Sayings

I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still see on a daily basis when Madeleine Albright says that it's all right, we have to live with the idea of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dying because it contains Saddam Hussein. — Pankaj Mishra

I have never lived before ... Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle

Tell me which places lie along your routes, and I will tell you who you are. What if, by connecting all of these points on a map, we discover something special about ourselves? What if we see the silhouette of fate, the secret sign that marks each of us? — Nadezhda Belenkaya

Whether you like me or not, the fact that you're precious to me won't change, no matter what. — Mari Okada

Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church and the world possess, and which, surrounded by countless memorials, has at least the same authenticity as any other history formed in the same countries, amidst the same peoples and in the same times. As, then, if I would study the lives of Brutus and Cassius, I should calmly open Plutarch, I open the Gospel to study Jesus Christ, and I do so with the same composure. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

It's good to find the barrel of the bat again. — Chase Utley

You can't swing a cat in Ireland without hitting a saint. — Ryan Hackney

An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires. — Christilot Hanson-Boylen

I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. — Karl Rove

While there may not be spiritual oppression involved in your battle [against lust], there'll always be opposition. The enemy is constantly near your ear. He doesn't want you to win this fight, and he knows the lies that so often break a man's confidence and his will to win. Expect to hear lies and plenty of them. satan's lie: 'You're the only one dealing with this problem. If anyone ever finds out, you'll be the laughingstock of the church!' The truth: Most men deal with this problem, so no one will laugh. — Steve Arterburn

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines? — George Carlin

The sweet spot for smart decisions, then, comes not just from being a domain expert, but also from having high self-awareness. — Daniel Goleman

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman. — Saffron Burrows

Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated. — Kofi Annan

Stop longing.You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow. — Robin Hobb

What's that you mutter to yourself, Matthew Maule?" asked Scicpio. "And what for do you look so black at me?"
"No matter, darky," said the carpenter. "Do you think nobody is to look black but yourself? — Nathaniel Hawthorne