Croasdaile Durham Quotes & Sayings

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. — Victor Hugo

The woman got shit done, and she was not one to abandon a project (say, her fixer-upper husband, for instance), even if she decided she didn't like it. — Gillian Flynn

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up. — Mike Singletary

A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth. — Anton Chekhov

WHAT IS INTEGRATION AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? Most of us don't think about the fact that our brain has many different parts with different jobs. For example, you have a left side of — Daniel J. Siegel

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath. — Sarah Addison Allen

William the Testy. On the contrary, he conceived that the true wisdom of legislation consisted in the multiplicity of laws. He accordingly had great punishments for great crimes, and little punishments for little offences. By degrees the whole surface of society was cut up by ditches and fences, and quickset hedges of the law, and even the sequestered paths of private life so beset by petty rules and ordinances, too numerous to be remembered, that one could scarce walk at large without the risk of letting off a spring-gun or falling into a man-trap. In a little while the blessings of innumerable laws became apparent; a class of men arose to expound and confound them. Petty courts were instituted to take cognizance of petty offences, pettifoggers began to abound, and the community was soon set together by the ears. — Washington Irving

The majority of dysfunctions that arise and entrench themselves in our lives are caused because of preconditioned expectations and assumptions. — Ly De Angeles

You find yourself in this place where you really get to find out what you're made of, and what I found was that when I was at my time of greatest need, there were people who appeared in my life, and helped me through it. — Kathy Mattea

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition. — Jon Krakauer

This Love, this saving grace, of which I speak I keep from no man, no woman. Come to Me as you are, I say. It is My Love you are to want, to plead for, to make room for in your heart. You do not have to be perfect to come to Me. You cannot be perfect except through Me, through the ways of My love. — Debra Clemente