Cracked Wall Quotes

#1. Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Simone Weil

#2. Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.

Everett Dirksen

#3. On the shelves along the wall my stacks. Jumbled and worn. Pagers curled and stained. Spines creased and cracked.

Lucas Klauss

#4. When Christ said to "pray, then, in this way," He didn't mean to pray with His exact words.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#5. PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACK ... Like a YO YO!!

Tanya Masse

#6. I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

Ben Macintyre

#7. You're never fully dressed without a smile.

Martin Charnin

#8. Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#9. I'm trying to sum up President Obama's first 11 months in office. He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know something, he may go down in history as our greatest Republican president ever.

Jay Leno

#10. Humanity is the crime; God is the criminal.

Kedar Joshi

#11. Tammy's eyes widened. "Oh, my God, Dorian, it's not only lust, is it? You're starting to fall for her. She matters."
Tammy was wrong, Dorian thought, looking out and into the yard again.
The truth was, he'd already fallen for her.

Nalini Singh

#12. There ought t'be some way t'eat celery so it wouldn't sound like you wuz steppin' on a basket.

Kin Hubbard

#13. Reading about another era is like armchair time travel--without the baggage.

CJ Fosdick

#14. I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.

Jim Gaffigan

#15. The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.

John Green

#16. What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause.

Chang-rae Lee

#17. The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.

David O. McKay