Csumb Bookstore Quotes & Sayings

Even a selected display of one's early work will be a naked history of one's struggle to receive an education in economics and love. — John Cheever

It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. Come on. — Jacqueline Carey

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small. — Felix Dennis

The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win ... The margin of error is so small in the NFL, so if you can do those two things - keep your team healthy and make the fewest mistakes each Sunday - you have a good chance of going to the Super Bowl. — Hugh Douglas

If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for [Barack] Obama but also for the Democrats. — John Howard

Today, in the West, there are no good excuses for religious belief - unless we think that ignorance, reaction, and sentimentality are good excuses. — Martin Amis

Suspicious: that's what they were, the sounds, the smells, the tastes. When they ran quickly under your nose like startled hares and you didn't pay too much attention, you might believe them to be simple and reassuring, you might believe that there was real blue in the world, real red, a real perfume of almonds or violets. But as soon as you held on to them for an instant, this feeling of comfort and security gave way to a deep uneasiness: colours, tastes, and smells were never real, never themselves and nothing but
themselves. — Jean-Paul Sartre

God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison. — Thomas Brooks

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul. — Ptolemy

It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely true and that's why we're not sending anybody to Iraq. — Stephen Harper

I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like. — Michael J. Fox

Sometimes, PTSD sufferers will shut out memories of painful periods in their lives and experience amnesia. Thus, a traumatized individual might not remember when his spouse died in a car accident. Another person who was abused might have gaps in her memory of childhood. — Glenn Schiraldi

I think, therefore I am (obsessive and compulsive). — Amy Surprenant

That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur. — Joseph Hall

Any final requests? This is going to be quick."
"Yes, actually I'd like you to change your mind."
"Not about to happen. — Sabrina Benulis