Crowland Quotes & Sayings

You see, at Rugby I was rather a great man. There one had a share in the ruling of 300 boys, and a good deal of responsibility; but here one has only just to take care of oneself, and keep out of scrapes; and that's what I never could do. — Thomas Hughes

We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man. — Oswald Spengler

Satan's gotta get along without me. Since I've broke the chain of sin I know for sure that he can't win. — Buck Owens

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end. — Berthold Auerbach

The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.'
There was a moment of stunned silence. Then my mother spoke slowly, with an edge to her voice. 'I think you mean "wild beasts laying their heads in his lap".'
'Do I? — Patrick Rothfuss

TOBIAS: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don't seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out. — T.S. Joyce

Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat of their pain is a response to the beat of yours, they have become truthful in their feelings ... they have moved a step closer to a truthful reunion. — Lewis B. Smedes

An end to timidity - the replacement of the philologically tentative by the lexicographically decisive. - on the making of the Oxford English Dictionary — Simon Winchester

I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player. — Hines Ward

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. — Albert Camus

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. — Carol Plum-Ucci

THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep - or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish - However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it - tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention. — William Carlos Williams

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive? — Roseanne Barr

What happens when I break one of your fuckin' rules? — Simone Elkeles

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work. — Russell Banks