Critoe Quotes & Sayings

I didn't go out shooting for anybody in particular because I shot for everybody unparticular. I make records for Muslims, Christians, rock 'n roll kids, skateboard kids. — Lupe Fiasco

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me. — Bayard Rustin

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. — Swami Sivananda

I had this grand idea that Elvira's kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween - at the malls, you'd have an Elvira there. Girls would dress as Elvira just like guys dress as Santa Claus, and it's not the real thing, but they'll pose for pictures, sign autographs. Of course, I couldn't go around to every mall, so we'd have to get more Elviras. — Cassandra Peterson

Not grace to bar what is not bliss,
Nor flight from all distress, but this:
The grace that orders our trouble and pain,
And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain. — John Piper

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good. — Dolly Parton

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple. — Emma Watson

Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself. — Plato

I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor. — Theodore Roosevelt

Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended. — Michael Michele

The one infinite is perfect , in simplicity , of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God , universal Nature , occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance. — Giordano Bruno

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster. — Dan Brown

I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head. — Jamaica Kincaid

Sophie picked her way through the forest, stepping over tree roots, and pushing aside low-lying branches, letting them snap back behind her with reckless abandon. The sun barely squeaked through the canopy of leaves above her, and down at ground level, it felt more like dusk than midday. — Julia Quinn