Cretan Quotes

#1. He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

Thomas Hardy

#2. pretty girl the German had danced with in a Cretan tavern during the Occupation was actually Xan in disguise.

Christopher McDougall

#3. I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#4. Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

Plutarch

#5. It is a terrible, terrible beauty that I do not understand.

Joseph Fink

#6. Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.

Lois Lowry

#7. In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.

Miyamoto Musashi

#8. Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

Mother Teresa

#9. Oh, God," I said.
"No, it's Dexter," he replied, offering me his hand, which I ignored.
He glanced behind him, then back at me. "I'll see you soon," he said, and grinned at
me.
"Like hell," I replied,

Sarah Dessen

#10. Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.

Chris Gabrieli

#11. Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom.

Lorraine Toussaint

#12. We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#13. Rules are made to be broken, but hearts are broken to be made.
It is a big miracle to be loved "because" of your inadequacies, not "despite" them.
And nothing can be as fascinating as walking tall on the same road that once witnessed your fall.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#14. If people could walk around in suits of energy, that would be cool. Other than that, I don't think men should wear spandex.

Blake Lively

#15. We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive? Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.

Frederick Lenz

#16. The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.

Charles Comiskey

#17. Israel, the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East, continues to shine as a beacon of light in the darkest region of the world.

Brigitte Gabriel

#18. It was only that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so with things as they were, and never acknowledging that though she did want him to be happy, it was only in her own way and by some plan of hers for him that she truly desired him to be so.

Nella Larsen

#19. Was music once a proof of God's existence? As long as it admits things beyond measure, That supposition stands.

Seamus Heaney