Kristal Quotes & Sayings

I think about the people I know with the absolutely largest hearts, people with a stunning capacity for endurance and grace and kindness against the most screaming terrors and pains. My Mom and Dad, for example, enduring the death of their first child at six months old, the boy the brother I never met, dying quietly in his stroller on the porch in the moment that my mother stepped back inside to get a pair of gloves because the crisp brilliant April wind was filled with a whistling cutting wind....

Fifty years later after five more children and two miscarriages she is standing in the kitchen with her usual eternal endless cup of tea and I ask her: How do you get over the death of your child?

And she says, in her blunt honest direct terse kind way,
You don't.
Her face harrowed like a hawk for a moment in the swirling steam of the tea.
p112-13 — Brian Doyle

But it's scary, isn't it? Not having something to hate and blame for all your unhappiness. — Carolyn Brown

I declare, there is no enjoyment like reading. — Jane Austen

You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor. — Tony Robbins

I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the free exercise of publishing a newspaper or the free exercise of building a church or the free exercise of the right of trial by jury. — Thomas Dillon

I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents will never show up. That would mess up the fun. I do, however, very much like Kate's idea of having Tony [Fucile] draw their portraits. — Kate DiCamillo

Life is beautiful for those who take the risk to love and take the adventure to enjoy life. — Debasish Mridha

I find it extraordinary that I'm being told I can't trust you the voter to get a government in to protect workers rights and that we need Brussels to defend you, the euro is a broken project we are going to pay, no you are going to pay out of your taxes one bailout out of another and the European union does not protect your jobs. — Gisela Stuart

He thought the library door would never open again, but that he would be left to live out the rest of his life rooted to the spot on the library carpet, afraid to move a muscle lest the house fall upon his shoulders. He deliberately shrugged them and shuffled his feel just to prove to himself that it could be done. — Mary Balogh

I remember the first time we stood in this spot. We were on the deck of a boat in the middle of what was then Penny's Bay, envisioning what could be, what would be, what will be. Six years later, through our dream partnership with Hong Kong government, the creative dream is now a reality. Hong Kong Disneyland stands before us as a living symbol of the creativity and imagination that are the heart and soul of Disney. — Michael Eisner

Imagination is the elixir of life. Slurp often, I do. — Kristal Hollis

Love can be found anyone. Love's timing sucks nor does it care about situations. It's in us all. It makes fools out of us all. — Kristal McKerrington

So, congratulations. You're married to a rock star. — Kylie Scott

I rather take the risk of trying to find real love than loving someone I know that is guaranteed — Kristal Eley

Sit in the companionship of God - the one who shows up and can be seen. — Dallas Willard

Mark Twain: It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so. — Wayne W. Dyer

Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it. — Jason Fried