Christopher Creed Quotes & Sayings

My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill-begotten pasts as their promising futures. It's as if people are drawn to looking back. They can't move on until it all makes sense. Humbly submitted: It never does. — Carol Plum-Ucci

The supposed "secular" values atheists hold dear are in fact borrowed Christian values. Our society is respectful of any creed, or lack thereof, not because it embraces an illusory, non-existent secular morality, but because it is rooted in Christian faith. Christopher Dawson noted that "we cannot understand the inner form of a society unless we understand its religion." Because moral values are always a religious product, and Western moral values are a product of Christianity. Our values, what we believe has a value beyond and above our self-interest, are grounded in religious faith or are not grounded at all. — Giorgio Roversi

What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere. — Dean Koontz

Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so. — Carol Plum-Ucci

There is something very cool about writing your worst memories through someone else's eyes. You start to see what happened to you ... almost as if it happened to somebody else. Especially if that made-up person is nice, it's a great exercise because there are many mean people in this world. — Carol Plum-Ucci

When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat. — Carol Plum-Ucci

I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM. — Carol Plum-Ucci

He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort's feet ... he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible ... — J.K. Rowling

People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them. — Carol Plum-Ucci

You can never see a plant grow, but they do. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if all magic moments are psychotic? — Carol Plum-Ucci

The problem is you can't wear your old shoes too often because people say, 'You're still wearing that shoe?' — Jochen Zeitz

You're making it sound like it's more dangerous to have a slightly weird family, than a totally weird family. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's? — Carol Plum-Ucci

People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive. — Carol Plum-Ucci

I love Coos Bay, and I love Acid! — Beatrice Sparks

There is justice in an insanely cruel world. — Carol Plum-Ucci

It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much. — Carol Plum-Ucci

The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates. — Edward St. Aubyn

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite ... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything. — Teddy Thompson

Rita was almost as badly damaged as I am. — Jeff Lindsay

Tiny acts of shitty retribution for tiny acts of shitty retribution for tiny acts of shitty retribution for an original offense that no one could remember. Or for no offense at all. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice
Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868) — Karl Marx

What does it take to unwind the unwanted? It takes twelve surgeons, in teams of two, rotating in and out as their medical specialty is needed. It takes nine surgical assistants and four nurses. It takes three hours. — Neal Shusterman

You can't find your life, or your peace, in the middle of a bezillion eyes staring at you. — Carol Plum-Ucci

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad - I've never changed my mind about that. — Carol Plum-Ucci

I loved playing [the Doctor], and taking part in the basic essence and message of the series which is, it's a short life, seize it, and live it as fully as you can. Care for others. Be respectful of all other life forms, regardless of colour or creed. To be part of that was fantastic. — Christopher Eccleston

People make their own choices, and sometimes those choices suck. — Carol Plum-Ucci

It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself. — Carol Plum-Ucci

You're in my personal space, so get out of it. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Thin veneers can cover a mountain of problems around here when nobody's looking at the details. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Life is excellent or life blows, depending on how you look at it. — Carol Plum-Ucci

No friend of my parents is a pervert. It's physiologically impossible. — Carol Plum-Ucci

People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit. — Carol Plum-Ucci