Crizanteme Quotes & Sayings

Pericles, he reflected, was a sad case. He'd been a postman all his life, a solid, reliable worker, until one Christmas when he had stolen all the gifts he was meant to deliver: wind-chimes, scented candles, Belgian chocolates, cowbells from the Bernese Oberland. Most of the haul had been lavished on his elderly mother; the rest he had stashed in his bedroom, which the old lady, being too frail to climb the stairs, no longer cleaned. — Alison Fell

You have to be careful with the stories you tell. And you have to watch out for the stories that you are told. — Thomas King

The moment is past. The chessboard has gone; and the people. You must let me take the room from you too. — Dorothy Dunnett

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open. — Genevieve Gorder

There's just something terrifying about admitting you like someone. In a way, it's actually easier when there's no chance of anything happening. But there's this threshold where things suddenly become possible. And then your cards are on the table. And there you are, wanting, right out in the open. — Becky Albertalli

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal. — Gary Oldman

I always knew I wanted to be in a band. — Hayley Williams

How could two people seem so perfect together, be so happy together, an yet be so wrong in so many others' eyes? — Melissa Darnell

Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism. — Gary Bauer

About a month ago some kids in my neighborhood were playing hide-and-go-seek and one of them ended up in an abandoned refrigerator. It's all anybody talked about for weeks. I said, 'Who cares? How many kids you know get to die a winner? — Anthony Jeselnik

Tell me what you are for, and I will show you what is going to expand in a positive way. Tell me what you are against, and I can show you what is going to expand in a destructive way. — Wayne Dyer

Don't fucking make judgments about something you know nothing about. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

You were kinder to yourselves in your legend than we were," Karou continued. "We made ourselves out of grief. You made yourselves in your gods' image, and with a noble purpose: to bring light to the worlds."
"A black job we've done of it," he said. — Laini Taylor

When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that our love was doomed: love had turned into a love-affair with a beginning and an end. — Graham Greene