Crescere Quotes & Sayings

No one needs to get bruised up falling in love. I just want to fall the way everybody else gets to. — Nicola Yoon

Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished. — John Howard

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it. — Anthony Daniels

The point is that if you think you can pinpoint the cause, then you can fool yourself into thinking you can avert the cause. It's deeply egotistical. It's life played as a grand insurance policy. Our myth-making around cancer stems from the same impulse. Because we don't know exactly why most of it happens, we weave a makeshift wisdom around it, a false prophet, which seeps into the common story and feeds our hunger to understand why. The guilt is a byproduct, a way to assign blame and seek absolution. It's a lesser evil than the forces of randomness. And it gives us the illusion of control. — Alanna Mitchell

Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible. — Ilona Andrews

Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand. — Paul Newman

Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred. — Elie Wiesel

It smells like the past. But not the dead past. It's so alive. — Deborah Harkness

Allah is my witness. I will not be silent. I will never surrender. — Anwar Ibrahim

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. — Robert Baden-Powell

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"What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying. — Ned Vizzini

It is not only true that the test of knowledge is an acute and cultivated awareness of how little one knows (as Socrates knew so well), it is true that the unbounded areas and fields of one's ignorance are now expanding in such a way, and at such a velocity, as to make the contemplation of them almost fantastically beautiful. — Christopher Hitchens

Promises are just chains," she rasps. "Both are meant for breaking. — Pierce Brown