Crozier Quotes

#1. And I said that Crozier did not need to call Fuck right now because we were not in trouble and did not need his help. And Toby said, That's right, he doesn't like to be summoned on trivial matters. And Zeb coughed.

Margaret Atwood

#2. The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never again steam or sail - but then he reminded himself of one certainty: when his store of whiskey was gone, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was going to blow his brains out.

Dan Simmons

#3. Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.
Has it?

Dan Simmons

#4. Who, like Crozier, would rather have his kidney stones removed with a spoon than be forced to suffer sermons -

Dan Simmons

#5. Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.

David Toop

#6. Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.

Craig Groeschel

#8. The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

George Friedman

#9. None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

Ashwin Sanghi

#11. The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

Brian Crozier

#12. Bitterness is captivity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. [During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

D.H. Lawrence

#14. I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.

Brian Crozier

#15. I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there

Brian Crozier

#16. The Doors really were a band of potheads.

Ray Manzarek

#17. Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#18. My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.

Rafe Spall

#19. Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.

Adolf Hitler

#20. Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?

Lorna Crozier

#21. A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.

Brian Crozier