Croie Quotes

#1. Do you wish people to speak well of you?
Then do not speak at all yourself.
[Fr., Voulez-vous qu'on croie du bien de vous?
N'en dites point.]

Blaise Pascal

#2. My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk and go for a swim in the ladies' ponds on Hampstead Heath or work in my allotment. Then I get tarted up in the evening and go out in London to dinner or the cinema.

Deborah Moggach

#3. How could a merchant lead people? Did not merchants have to focus on their wares? It was ridiculous.

Robert Jordan

#4. I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how the art form has changed or not changed and to learn from the greats.

Kevin Chamberlin

#5. I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside.

William Shatner

#6. There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

Michel De Montaigne

#7. As every organizer knows, the first step to empowerment is the recognition of self-worth and the identification of one's interests with that of others. Political mobilization depends on this.

John Restakis

#8. I think that you have mistaken pride for faith, as so many do.

Geraldine Harris

#9. I do think that it is legitimate to talk of goals and functions in nature, and that these things can be made sense of in naturalistic terms. There is nothing at all contrary to naturalism in the idea of goal-directed systems.

Hilary Kornblith

#10. The only way for you to know that you can really make a change is by knowing the future.

Toba Beta

#11. Now then is my chance to find out what is of great importance, and I
must be careful, and tell no lies.

Virginia Woolf

#12. One of the gifts we receive from Jesus is an entirely new foundation upon which to build our lives. Once you receive Him, He becomes your new foundation and every day you walk with Him, you build on it.

Stormie O'martian

#13. I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.

Grace Paley

#14. I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

Donna Tartt

#15. Again, fear makes people do stupid things," I reminded her. "It can even make you do things you never thought you were capable of. If you're desperate enough you'll even believe things you know aren't true.

J.M. Northup