Cowskin Creek Quotes & Sayings

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it. — Morgan Freeman

I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story. — John Le Carre

What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define. — Pierre Trudeau

Now, the more holy a man gets the more he cries in this fashion. While he is low down in the scale, he puts up with sin, and he is uneasy, but when he gets to see Christ and get somewhat like him, the more nearly he approximates to the image of his Master, the more the presence of the least sinful thought is horrifying to him. He would, if he could, never look on sin again - never have the slightest inclination to it, but he finds his heart getting abroad and wandering when he would tether it down, if he could, to the cross and crucify it there. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The people rate strength before everything. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People of ze wurl, relax! — Tom Robbins

You only need willpower to get what you don't want or you only want to want. By want to want, I mean, something you wish you wanted. But don't really. If — Augusten Burroughs

The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yeah, how dare they try to kill you in the middle of a war? Don't they know you're busy trying to kill them? How rude! — Drew Karpyshyn

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched. — Charles Buxton

Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We cannot change where God has put us. If we are to bloom at all, we must bloom where we have been planted. — Lisa Wingate

We [US government] have no fundamental disagreement with the Saudis - I mean, excuse me, with the Iraqis any more than we do with the Arab League, which we happen to support the position they're taking. — Joe Biden

[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth. — Oliver Goldsmith

You always get what you unconsciously believe and expect. — Joe Vitale