The Hiding Place Chapter 14 Quotes & Sayings

12/18/89 Calvin asks Hobbes if he'll help him write a book. Calvin says this book will be like historical fiction. He's writing a fictional autobiography. He tells Hobbes it's the story of his life with a lot of parts completely made up. Hobbes asks why he'd want to make up his whole life. Calvin replies that in his book, he has a flame thrower. — Steve Kurtz

Blind wantons like the gulls who scream
And rip the edge off any ideal or dream. — Louis MacNeice

Once I stopped drinking and I'd be going out on dates, or hanging out with guys, I'd realize, "Oh, maybe I don't like them that much!" I think the drinking was to make these guys more tolerable. — Alison Rosen

He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas. — Yann Martel

Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken. — Myrtle Aydelotte

risk takers calculatedly take and over take risk — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Keep life simple ... turn toward the divine. It satisfies, it brings knowledge, and it brings joy. — Ming-Dao Deng

We have seen the civil rights movement insist on re-writing many of the textbooks in our universities and schools. The labor unions likewise insist that textbooks be fair to the viewpoints of organized labor. Other interested citizens groups have not hesitated to review, analyze and criticize textbooks and teaching materials. — Lewis F. Powell Jr.

In the Universe all things have their owner; and if it does not belong to me, not a tiny speck can I take. Encounter fresh breeze on the river or bright moon between the hills, any ears can take as music and eyes as sights; nothing prohibits anyone from taking and it will never be depleted with consumption, they are Creator's infinite treasures delighting both you and I. (from Red Cliff Rhapsody by Su Shih) — Sung Yee Poon

We could make a meal
of what's left in this box:
potato, onion, rind of cheese,
elderly egg. We could make
another baby without much
fear, at our age. Name her
Rosa and set her in the yard
with us, pulling weeds,
listening to the birds dusting
their wings in the drive. We
could instead just hold each other
here in the cold house,
and say enough, enough. — Rachel Contreni Flynn

Why does not the stunning evidence of the last miracle grant me confidence in the next crisis? Because my immaturity does not permit such a faith, my desperate prayer is that God would grant me a robust faith sufficient to trust Him not for one crisis, but for an eternity of miracles. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. — Roger Ebert

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true — Lady Gaga

Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character. — Robert Grudin

Does the business have a consistent operating history? — Warren Buffett