Top 100 Caldwell's Quotes
#1. That was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83 ... If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start 'Cause You're Already Running Late.
Christopher Paul Curtis
#2. Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Taylor Caldwell
#3. It is always hard to leave a home a drama a way of life a life. So I sat there warm and safe that night held by the sea and a good man and my own good fortune victim and witness to all the transitory sweetness like Gatsby's dreams that stood before and behind me.
Gail Caldwell
#4. Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.
Sarah Caldwell
#5. The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
Gail Caldwell
#6. Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.
Christopher Caldwell
#7. The real trick is to let life, with all it's ordinary missteps and regrets, be consistently more mysterious and alluring then it's end.
Gail Caldwell
#8. A man's judged by what he is and not what he was.
Jack Caldwell
#10. I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell
#13. Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.
Kimberly Caldwell
#14. The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.
Ian Caldwell
#15. I think lots of things, Denny, and I dismiss nothing. When I know, then I'll act.
Jack Caldwell
#16. I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.
Erskine Caldwell
#17. Memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.
Gail Caldwell
#18. I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
Taylor Caldwell
#19. Most beings only saw the beauty of a smoothed stone and thought nothing of the shape it might once have held or of the ceaseless pressure that formed it. Perhaps that was enough, though, for the rock to bear its own hardship in silence and share only with others what they wanted to see.
Dallas E. Caldwell
#20. MOUNTAINS OF CALDWELL, NEW YORK, PRESENT DAY T
J.R. Ward
#21. Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.
Taylor Caldwell
#22. People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
Taylor Caldwell
#23. A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
Taylor Caldwell
#24. Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
Taylor Caldwell
#25. The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses the heartbreak within. A deal that seems to be the price we pay for getting to hold on to our beloved dead.
Gail Caldwell
#26. You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you ...
Erskine Caldwell
#27. That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
Sarah Caldwell
#28. Satan must be defeated in the arena he dominates, this world. So Christ was sent into this world to destroy Satan's works.
Charles Caldwell Ryrie
#29. Hope ... which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.
Ian Caldwell
#30. It's like in someways I've been trying to create without first destroying. Is such a concept possible? For too long I have feared myself, fear what I can create. In essence, I have feared creating myself.
Jeremy Caldwell
#31. A Greek has twenty-five centuries of painful history to keep is dreams in check, but there's nothing more dangerous than to give an American hope.
Ian Caldwell
#32. Parks is on his knees now, a few feet to Justineau's left. He's working the crank to open the door. But it's not opening, even though he's encouraging it with a continuous stream of bad language. Caldwell must have disabled the emergency access. Melanie
M.R. Carey
#33. Caldwell doesn't answer. She's unfolded her arms for the first time and she's taking a furtive, fearful look at her injuries, like a poker player lifting the corners of his cards to see what Lady Luck has sent along. But
M.R. Carey
#34. I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can't, because I'm Taylor Caldwell, the girl who cuts.
S. Elle Cameron
#35. As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.
Sarah Caldwell
#36. Gallagher opens his mouth, shuts it, tries again. "Could make some Molotovs?" he suggests. He nods toward the kitchen. "There's bottles of cooking oil in there." "I don't believe breaking bottles would make a particularly loud noise," Dr Caldwell says acerbically. "It
M.R. Carey
#37. The mother's first job is to raise a daughter strong enough to outlast her.
Gail Caldwell
#38. Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!
Kimberly Caldwell
#39. Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.
Ian Caldwell
#40. You can't change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn't make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don't get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.
Gail Caldwell
#41. It's OK to consider your own needs. It's OK to worry about how you feel. You don't have to always be a wonderful, charitable person. You can give in. You're selfish. Everything you do is for your own good. And it's OK!
Nicholas Caldwell
#42. They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.
Andre Caldwell
#43. A statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
Taylor Caldwell
#44. Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.
Ian Caldwell
#45. If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.
Gail Caldwell
#46. A good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask
but a great friend does it without being asked at all.
Ian Caldwell
#47. As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.
Caldwell Esselstyn
#48. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part
time and space and the heart's weariness are the blander executioners of human connection.
Gail Caldwell
#49. It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.
Gail Caldwell
#50. Inde fernut, titidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpre de patrio parvum phenica renasci' It's from Ovid. It means, 'A little phoenix is born anew from the father's body, fated to live the same number of years.
Ian Caldwell
#52. To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.
Erskine Caldwell
#53. I think writing is like ministry. You get this call and you run before accepting it. If you run right to it, there's a good chance you were not called.
Robin Caldwell
#54. Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
Sarah Caldwell
#56. Boia is trying to force Simon to talk. Nowak is trying to keep the exhibit a secret.
Ian Caldwell
#57. Near the end I asked him one night in the hospital corridor what he thought was happening, and he said, "Tell her everything you haven't said," and I smiled with relief. "There's nothing," I said. "I've already told her everything.
Gail Caldwell
#60. A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.
Ian Caldwell
#61. Tawny shrugged. "I was overreacting. Typical big sister move. He explained why he did it, and it makes sense, in a slightly twisted way. He's not a bad guy. He's just a jerk. But a nice one."
"That doesn't make any sense."
"Men rarely do.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#62. If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.
Taylor Caldwell
#63. We both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
Ian Caldwell
#64. In writing Simon's stories, I have written myself out of my own life.
K.J. Charles
#65. His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps in evidence, errors in interpretation, in objects, far from his own.
Ian Caldwell
#67. After Father died, she told me that it felt strange to have hands anymore, what with no one to hold them.
Ian Caldwell
#68. I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing.
Tommy Caldwell
#69. I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease.
Caldwell Esselstyn
#70. Like the color of one's skin, the shape of one's genitals is a neutral biological fact that acquires meaning from society, which prides or devalues certain biological differences.
Richard Caldwell
#71. If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
Sarah Caldwell
#72. I always heard 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger' growing up. How so very foolish. In fact, what doesn't kill you is only delaying the inevitable.
Jeremy Caldwell
#73. My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.
Gail Caldwell
#74. We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.
Sarah Caldwell
#75. Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.
Tommy Caldwell
#76. Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.
Gail Caldwell
#77. Life has taught this boy to string nets beneath his hopes.
Ian Caldwell
#79. One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.
Christopher Caldwell
#80. Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.
Tommy Caldwell
#81. I thought on that, but there just ain't no way around the fact that some folks need killing.
C. Hoyt Caldwell
#82. The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's,
Taylor Caldwell
#83. Faith in Christ is a one-time decision that leads to a lifetime of growth.
Stephen Caldwell
#85. So this is how my friend died. Because I taught him how to read the gospels. And because he had the bravery to speak out about what they revealed.
Ian Caldwell
#87. It's a funny thing about love: you don't need to have it returned to love somebody. Loving's enough.
A Prologue to Love
Taylor Caldwell
#88. Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.
Caldwell Esselstyn
#89. On the way back to Berea College, Deborah and William caught up on events, most of the time both talking at once. Mr. Caldwell listened and smiled, perhaps remembering his youth.
William Roy Pipes
#90. Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.
Ian Caldwell
#91. El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.
Tommy Caldwell
#92. The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for the next thing - the need to accomplish and explore are just woven into the fabric of who I am.
Tommy Caldwell
#93. If you don't own your grunt work, can you really say you've done the climb?
Tommy Caldwell
#94. Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a woman's ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a woman's usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in which a woman made money through self-employment or entrepreneurship.
Robin Caldwell
#95. We need imperfection in our relationships, else we would die from the thickness of intimacy.
Gail Caldwell
#96. If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
Taylor Caldwell
#97. One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
Taylor Caldwell
#98. The territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.
Gail Caldwell
#100. We all feel inadequate very often. It's only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one's emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.
Taylor Caldwell
