Crandell Mountain Quotes & Sayings

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe
or she will call you ungrateful. — Martial

Isn't it funny, she thinks, that this suspended animation is as much a part of life as every other day. Somehow, waiting here feels like it shouldn't count to her time in the world, like it should come for free. — Claire Battershill

When revealed theology is reduced to an autonomous study of man, when biblical authority is replaced by an unstable human wisdom, when behavior is directed by the descriptions of social science instead of the prescriptions of God's Word, then we have returned to the situation prevailing at the time of the Book of Judges: every man will do what is right in his own eyes. — Greg L. Bahnsen

But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions? — Anne Lamott

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics ... — Roger Bacon

There are aspectsof this life
of this world
from which you can never walk away. Ever. The fact that almost everything you say to almost everyone you love for the rest of your life will be a lie is one of them. — Ally Carter

Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women's movement, we're still talking about the same issues. We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating. — Corin Tucker

There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war. — Wojciech Jaruzelski

If the gods do evil then they are not gods. — Euripides

I'm falling into disrepair — Anne Tyler

Finally, my watchers had to fess up. In embarrassed and genuinely polite tones, they said they had no other choice but to arrest me. Then they accompanied me to the prison across the way. As I entered, an extremely tall SS man leapt in front of me and asked: "Do you have any weapons?" "Why?" I responded. "Do I need any? — Rudolph Herzog

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one. — Raul Julia

I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book ... — Vladimir Nabokov

Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution. — Deepak Chopra

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. — Ralph Ellison