Creamers Quotes & Sayings

It
does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom
is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but
encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of his
soul, refreshed by water. — Nikolai Gogol

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom. — Ted Cruz

A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant. — Anthony De Mello

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. — Charles Sumner

There is something so tough about grace, though, that some people refuse to accept it. Other world religions or worldviews make ladders we need to climb to get to heaven, when the real Christian faith can only be lived by army crawling to get it. We have to get low. We have to humble ourselves. And I promise joy is on the other side. — Jefferson Bethke

We fell asleep wrapped in each other as if we could not bear to part, even in sleep we could not bear to let each other go. — Philippa Gregory

When you live surrounded by clutter, it is impossible to have clarity about what you are doing in your life. — Karen Kingston

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing. — Jessamyn West

A book coming out into the world can be a harsh, harsh time. And your feelings are on the line. Everything that publication is about is really not what your writing is about. Your writing is coming out of something else, and publication and being in the public are something else. And those of us who have published, in whatever way we're published, are very fortunate. — Lynne Tillman

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. — Milton Friedman

Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Putin was like, 'It wasn't Picasso, just picture of what his face would look like if he said no.' (Nose over here, eye up here, ear in forehead.) — Jimmy Fallon

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. — Cormac McCarthy

She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache ... — Stephen King

Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it, — Mike Huckabee