The Body Of Christopher Creed Quotes & Sayings

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple. — James Joyce

Without exception all political parties promise their supporters a higher real income. There is no difference in this respect between nationalists and internationalists and between the supporters of a market economy and the advocates of either socialism or interventionism. If a party asks its supporters to make sacrifices for its cause, it always explains these sacrifices as the necessary temporary means for the attainment of the ultimate goal, the improvement of the material well-being of its members. Each party considers it as an insidious plot against its prestige and its survival if somebody ventures to question the capacity of its projects to make the group members more prosperous. Each party regards with a deadly hatred the economists embarking upon such a critique. — Ludwig Von Mises

Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so. — Carol Plum-Ucci

When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat. — Carol Plum-Ucci

I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM. — Carol Plum-Ucci

People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them. — Carol Plum-Ucci

I cannot tell you how angry it makes me to hear people from North America tell me how much they love England, how beautiful England is, with its traditions. All they see is some frumpy, wrinkled-up person passing by in a carriage waving at a crowd. But what I see is the millions of people, of whom I am just one, made orphans: no motherland, no fatherland, no gods, no mounds of earth for holy ground, no excess of love which might lead to the things that an excess of love sometimes brings, and worst and most painful of all, no tongue. — Jamaica Kincaid

This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West ... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that. — Rick Pitino

It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much. — Carol Plum-Ucci

There is justice in an insanely cruel world. — Carol Plum-Ucci

You're making it sound like it's more dangerous to have a slightly weird family, than a totally weird family. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names. — Chuck Palahniuk

People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's? — Carol Plum-Ucci

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. — Woodrow Wilson

I hope to bring ancient philosophy and new scientific thinking together, to provide a new perspective of nature, especially the relationship between nature and man. — Liu Dan

People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end. — Blaise Pascal

Maturity means the ability to see what is important and what is not. — Vatsal Surti

You can't find your life, or your peace, in the middle of a bezillion eyes staring at you. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. — Pema Chodron

You're in my personal space, so get out of it. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate. — Viktor E. Frankl

Shambhala does have unique teachings, as do many Buddhist traditions. For example, certain teachings within Shambhala have to do with raising the personal windhorse, or the energy of the individual, so a person has good fortitude to be able to live a good life. — Sakyong Mipham

Fitness is a luxury when you are busy! — Lauren Conrad

He rolled his eyes. Why was he surprised about anything having to do with her? Of course she'd be able to lift a large stone. She was Henry. She could probably lift him. — Julia Quinn

No friend of my parents is a pervert. It's physiologically impossible. — Carol Plum-Ucci