Lafe Crick Quotes & Sayings

I don't find perfection especially interesting. Art is not all about refinement and formal accomplishment. It is about passion and imagination and courage and these things that I didn't understand when I was kid being taught the rules. I realized that a novel could be. . .art could be. . . what I wanted to make it if I could pull it off. — Steve Erickson

Only if we believe God can we maintain joy in the midst of hardship. — R.C. Sproul

A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth. — Chanakya

From "Her Kind"
I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,
closets, silks, innumerable goods;
fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:
whining, rearranging the disaligned.
A woman like that is misunderstood.
I have been her kind. — Anne Sexton

We believe that people moving their portfolios to an overweight in bonds will be disappointed over the long-term and will significantly underperform an asset allocation that over-weights equities. — James O'Shaughnessy

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured — Thomas Paine

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed. — Billy Graham

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment. — George Eliot

I went upstairs to my office. Lay in the dark among my books. The only comforting thing I have. An exile in my own house, my own family. Maybe in my own country. — Philipp Meyer

Art should not have to be a certain way, — Willem De Kooning

After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation. — Jules Ferry