Crabbily Quotes & Sayings

The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace. — Paul David Tripp

And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended. — Josephus

Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I could gaze at him all day, but I have needs. Bathroom needs. — E.L. James

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination. — Robert Genn

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame. — M.L. Stedman

The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The development of objective thinking by the Greeks appears to have required a number of specific cultural factors. First was the assembly, where men first learned to persuade one another by means of rational debate. Second was a maritime economy that prevented isolation and parochialism. Third was the existence of a widespread Greek-speaking world around which travelers and scholars could wander. Fourth was the existence of an independent merchant class that could hire its own teachers. Fifth was the Iliad and the Odyssey, literary masterpieces that are themselves the epitome of liberal rational thinking. Sixth was a literary religion not dominated by priests. And seventh was the persistence of these factors for 1,000 years. — Carl Sagan

I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp. — Daniel Clowes

Every time you tell a lie an angel punches a unicorn in the face with a kitten. — Dave Turner

In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right. — Leigh Anne Tuohy

I'm having a stress flashback." Davy bonked his head on the table. "My brother has decided to break into the house of the richest guy in the county and seduce his sexpot daughter, under his nose."
"I'm not going to seduce her," Sean said crabbily. "I'd go through the front door and talk to her right in front of her mother if I could, but those people think I'm festering sewage sludge."
"No. They think you're dangerous, mentally unhinged festering sewage sludge," Davy corrected. — Shannon McKenna

To shoot at crows is powder flung away. — John Gay

How interesting that a man didn't always admire his own traits in another. The — Grace Draven

Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, 'Real' is a dirty word in this place'. — Lauren DeStefano

The relentless onslaught of this stupefying imagery that pounds our inner landscapes flat, a carpet-bombing of the mind. The language of the world, that overwhelms us. — Alan Moore