Following Christopher Creed Quotes & Sayings

I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us. — Lyndon B. Johnson

My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill-begotten pasts as their promising futures. It's as if people are drawn to looking back. They can't move on until it all makes sense. Humbly submitted: It never does. — Carol Plum-Ucci

You want to live?
Yes!
Then quit thinking you're gonna die! — Laurel Dewey

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones. — Michel De Montaigne

There is something very cool about writing your worst memories through someone else's eyes. You start to see what happened to you ... almost as if it happened to somebody else. Especially if that made-up person is nice, it's a great exercise because there are many mean people in this world. — Carol Plum-Ucci

I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and each district having a definite character. — Joan Lingard

Today I must look in the mirror and be thankful for the person who I find staring back at me. For although the reflection is terribly imperfect, and I know that full well, God created it with enough room that one day it would be perfect. And if there is nothing else I can find to be thankful for, let me begin here. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

You can never see a plant grow, but they do. — Carol Plum-Ucci

It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself. — Carol Plum-Ucci

People make their own choices, and sometimes those choices suck. — Carol Plum-Ucci

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad - I've never changed my mind about that. — Carol Plum-Ucci

It's always so much fun to create backstory. Even if there are more clues in the script, you still always have to invent a lot for yourself. I think that comes naturally. — Jane Levy

One must make the most of opportunities, or they are lost forever. — Paulo Coelho

Thin veneers can cover a mountain of problems around here when nobody's looking at the details. — Carol Plum-Ucci

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change. — Tiberius

It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful. — Helen Fisher

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires. — Aristotle.

Life is excellent or life blows, depending on how you look at it. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if all magic moments are psychotic? — Carol Plum-Ucci

Get rid of all that is unnecessary. Wabi-sabi means treading lightly on the planet and knowing how to appreciate whatever is encountered, no matter how trifling, whenever it is encountered. [ ... ] In other words, wabi-sabi tells us to stop our preoccupation with success
wealth, status, power, and luxury
and enjoy the unencumbered life. Obviously, leading the simple wabi-sabi life requires some effort and will and also some tough decisions. Wabi-sabi acknowledges that just as it is important to know when to make choices, it is also important to know when not to make choices: to let things be. Even at the most austere level of material existence, we still live in a world of things. Wabi-sabi is exactly about the delicate balance between the pleasure we get from things and the pleasure we get from freedom of things. — Leonard Koren

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art. — Emile Zola