Cresens Quotes & Sayings

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. — Chuck Grassley

Gods and demons, being creatures outside of time, don't move in it like bubbles in the stream. Everything happens at the same time for them. This should mean that they know everything that is going to happen because, in a sense, it already has. The reason they don't is that reality is a big place with a lot of interesting things going on, and keeping track of all of them is like trying to use a very big video recorder with no freeze button or tape counter. It's usually easier just to wait and see. — Anonymous

I'll always be with you, inside and out," she reads. "Through hard times and helpless ones, through love, through doubt. — Jessica Sorensen

If I were taking notes, they would read: I see something. A shape? I have no idea. It's not exactly the stuff that literary archives are made of. — Ann Patchett

If you intend to die, you can do anything. — Chip Kidd

Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored. — Joan Didion

That's the whole problem, isn't it?" He turned his face toward the night sky and let out a horrible laugh, like a gasp of pain. "Why are you the only person who's allowed to be strong? — Katie Alender

Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Even in fine-dining restaurants, you have people that say 'I want to be out in half hour', 'I want to be out in 45 minutes.' It happens. — Michael Mina

If we see anyone who renounces his rights in regard to worldly matters and forgives even strangers, not to speak of relations, we should think of him as a good man. If we desist from beating up a thief or any other felon, do nothing to get him punished but, after admonishing him and recovering from him the stolen article, let him go, we would be credited with humanity and our action would be regarded as an instance of non-violence; a contrary course would be looked upon as violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

You know, my grandmother used to say, 'While I'm down here planning, God's up there laughing.' I guess the thing with most things that are worthwhile is that you can't give up easily. You've got to hang in. — Paul Anka

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is. — Jo Walton

Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs. — Ralph Keyes

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it. — A.J. Liebling