
Top 100 Crane Quotes
#1. Men were better, or more timid. Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.
Stephen Crane
#2. Nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.
Stephen Crane
#3. I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.
David James Elliott
#4. Was he laughing at me? Was I so pathetic that the thought that not only getting caught, but being humiliated with laughter was appropriate punishment for my lameness?
Shelly Crane
#5. The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.
John Green
#6. Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.
David Crane
#7. I am but a small shard in a grand mosaic.
Fred Crane
#8. When I got bored, I conjugated verbs. Kissing and conjugating go well together. They're both French. No.
Rebekah Crane
#9. Glanced back behind me but heard nothing save for a grunt that was repeated from several different sources at once.
Robert J. Crane
#10. You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming.
Stephen Crane
#11. Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.
Carolyn Crane
#13. I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole from
you. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make you
forget.
Shelly Crane
#14. We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.
Shelly Crane
#15. You can't hang on to the past and you certainly can't throw a wobbly every time something happens that you don't like.
Shelly Crane
#16. The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Chanakya
#17. Your heart beat is my favorite thing to listen to. When you look at me and your heart rate jumps.
Shelly Crane
#18. I'll always come for you. I'll always find you.
Shelly Crane
#20. The world isn't always easy, but it's those times when we're tested that we're forged in fire.
Shelly Crane
#21. Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.
Stephen Crane
#22. You look like the cat that swallowed the cream," Stephen said softly.
"That comes later.
K.J. Charles
#23. I felt like a glutton for pain, like I wanted to clutch the misery close to my heart and let it sit there.
Robert J. Crane
#24. Sometimes silence is needed the most when life is so full of noise.
Rebekah Crane
#25. Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.
Chanakya
#26. And it's not fair. But all's fair in love and war, right?
Shelly Crane
#28. I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.
Tim Crane
#29. Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!
George W. Crane
#30. You almost got hit by a truck because you were checking me out?" I joked and he laughed loudly.
"Yeah. Good thing you saved me. It would have been your fault if I didn't make it," he said through a grin.
Shelly Crane
#32. Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.
Hart Crane
#33. We watched Vamps hunting Vamps, Vamp hunters and Witches torching Vamps, teenage girls kissing Vamps. And we giggled and swooned through it all.
Shelly Crane
#34. This is like a freaking romance novel. What happened next?
Shelly Crane
#35. God, Packard! Do you know how hard I worked at
it?" I twist up the napkin and whip it at him.
He deflects it. "There we go; I knew you could do it."
My mouth falls open. "Very funny."
He just laughs.
"I can't believe you!
Carolyn Crane
#36. Sometimes the sacrifice of love costs too much to pay by yourself.
Shelly Crane
#37. Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.
Ed Crane
#38. From CATS ARE KIND
I saw a dog pursuing automobiles;
On and on he sped.
I was puzzled by this;
I accosted the dog.
'If you catch one,' I said
'What will you do with it?'
'Dumb cat,' he cried,
And ran on.
Henry N. Beard
#39. Oookay, but for the record, I'm not really thrilled about punching some Lighter's junk.
Shelly Crane
#40. To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.
Frederick E. Crane
#41. I was just walking out of school from cheer practice and she walks right up to me and says "Come with me if you want to live." I laughed so hard at her I almost peed my pants. I mean who says that? It was pretty clear she wasn't from this planet. Everyone knows who the Terminator is.
Shelly Crane
#42. Truly, all that was missing was Mission Impossible theme music, and if I was being honest, it was playing in my head anyway.
Shelly Crane
#43. Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
Herman Melville
#44. You need a little bit of the crazy to keep things fun.
Caprice Crane
#45. The top seed this weekend is Richard Krajicek,12 a 6'5" Dutchman who wears a tiny white billed hat in the sun and rushes the net like it owes him money and in general plays like a rabid crane.
David Foster Wallace
#46. I'm thinking about how you sighed this little sigh when you sank into the feeling of us together. We both sank into that feeling together - I'll never forget that.
Carolyn Crane
#47. could hear them breathing and an unfamiliar scent filled the air, something brisk and fresh, that brought with it a chill that
Robert J. Crane
#48. The sooner you learn women rule this world, the better off you'll be.
Julia Crane
#49. The wind had a voice as it came over the waves, and it was sadder than the end.
Stephen Crane
#50. It was easier to be a leader when you weren't surrounded by total idiots.
Robert J. Crane
#51. You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.
Frank Crane
#52. A kiss with the right person simply can't be compared to the drudgery of sleeping with the wrong one over and over.
Carolyn Crane
#53. A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.
Frank Crane
#54. The hot air wrapped me up like a blanket, curling around my body and making me want to hang my tongue out like a dog. And then spray it with water. From a fire hose. On full blast. I don't know, I think the heat was messing with my mind. It
Robert J. Crane
#55. Sometimes, knowing when to let go is just as important as knowing when to hold tight.
Shelly Crane
#56. Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.
Nathalia Crane
#57. It's rooted in my blood to consume you and be consumed by you. To protect you. To please you, in every way. To make you shiver when I touch you. To cause your heart to beat faster.
Shelly Crane
#58. Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.
Megan Crane
#60. The things we should focus on in any life shouldn't be what we've lost, but what we've gained
Shelly Crane
#62. Will you sleep with me?" he asked softly, before grinning suddenly. "In the tub?
Shelly Crane
#63. And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
Hart Crane
#64. Gran swatted his butt and shooed him away out the door. "Now, we can get down to business." She rubbed her hands together like a villain.
Shelly Crane
#65. When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
Arrived at the mountain-top
He cried: Woe to my knowledge!
I intended to see good white lands
And bad black lands
But the scene is grey.
Stephen Crane
#66. You are faster than your fears. You need not outrun them when you can outfight them, conquer them, make them yours
Robert J. Crane
#67. I cannot help vanishing and disappearing and dissolving. It is my foremost trait.
Stephen Crane
#68. The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog")
Stephen Crane
#69. O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God.
Hart Crane
#70. Every day is its own infinity, every hour, its own eternity, every minute, its own forever.
Shelly Crane
#71. Each man in this stretcher party had gained a reflected majesty. They were footmen to death, and
Stephen Crane
#72. We turned our attention back to Jeff, who just started his interrogation of Polly, who looked horrendous. I didn't mean that in a hateful way. She really did look awful. Like someone took the sick-and-pale stick and beat her senseless with it.
Shelly Crane
#73. the truth is important, the truth is what makes us free people. No guilt or shame holding us back.
Shelly Crane
#74. And, furthermore, how could they kill him who was the chosen of gods and doomed to greatness?
Stephen Crane
#75. You cannot control bad things that happen to you any more than you can control the weather. It's less about the things that happen and more about how you react to them.
Robert J. Crane
#76. There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."
Dave Barry
#77. You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.
Frank Crane
#78. I could never go back to something like that. Not after having passion for someone, after seeing what it's like to want and feel something in your bones,
Shelly Crane
#80. You're right. I'm not the kind of woman to do something foolish out of defiance. I am, however, the kind of woman who would do something just to prove that you can't tell me what kind of woman I am.
Carolyn Crane
#81. The youth perceived that the time had come. He was about to be measured. For a moment he felt in the face of his great trial like a babe, and the flesh over his heart seemed very thin.
Stephen Crane
#82. Hearing my name reminds me of rejection, hope, and tears all masked with a smile.
E.M. Crane
#83. Lily asked Calvin to play dolls with her. He reluctantly joined her on the floor, but it soon became Chuck Norris meets Joy doll and she was going down repeatedly. Lily, scandalized, pouted, but began to retaliate. Oh no you don't, Chuck! I'm Piper, psycho Barbie!
Shelly Crane
#85. He had been out among the dragons, he said, and he assured himself that they were not so hideous as he had imagined them. Also,
Stephen Crane
#86. I never thought I'd find someone that I couldn't see myself without.
Shelly Crane
#87. Caleb and Kyle couldn't keep their eyes off me, like I was the queen of frigging England sitting at their table or something.
Shelly Crane
#88. One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).
Tim Crane
#90. Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): "What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.
Frasier Crane
#91. The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.
Nathalia Crane
#92. I can remember much forgetfulness.
Hart Crane
#93. Because a man can only live with despair for so long before hope resurges.
Robert J. Crane
#94. Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared to an Asbury Park summer crowd, and the latter was vaguely amused.
Stephen Crane
#95. Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.'
John Fusco
#96. It perhaps might be said
if any one dared
that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.
Stephen Crane
#97. Where's he getting the bricks? Packard asks.
That's what I don't understand. He brought his own bricks?
Carolyn Crane
#98. He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.
Stephen Crane
#99. Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras
Hart Crane
#100. To be all in, no regrets, no turning back, no matter the consequences. It felt a lot like freedom.
Shelly Crane
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