Crystalised Quotes & Sayings

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. — Charles Sanders Peirce

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place. — Herodotus

The criteria for coming to Jesus is weariness. Come overwhelmed with life. Come with your wandering mind. Come messy. — Paul E. Miller

I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California. — Susan Straight

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. — Luke Ford

A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in. — Kim Ki-duk

I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make midnight cups of coffee. I was in the kitchen helping to dish up and having a fierce argument with one of the boys in the crowd when someone else interrupted to say: 'Of course Margaret, you will go into politics won't you?' I stopped dead. Suddenly it was crystalised for me. I knew. — Margaret Thatcher

His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army. — Joseph J. Ellis

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. — Kin Hubbard

A man who likes to get hit is the one to watch out for. — Matt Bondurant

What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things. — Emily Carr

I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week. — Hank Aaron