Griswolds Christmas Quotes

#1. I am not afraid of death, Abigail. I am afraid that I might draw back and not be bold in proclaiming the gospel." He hesitated, then said, "And I am afraid that I might not stand firm. That under the heel of the enemy, in pain, I might deny my Lord.

Janette Oke

#2. Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. What a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere.

Kristin Cashore

#3. The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Erica Jong

#4. A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Samuel Johnson

#5. The ghost of the heart of manred Cain
And the more murderous brain
Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death
Of his mother Earth, and tore
Her womb, to know the place where he was conceived.

Edith Sitwell

#6. that of the mind is in abysmal stillness;

Lao-Tzu

#7. Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.

John Hall

#8. Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. When an upstart dictator in the United States succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets.

Charles Coughlin

#10. As I've heard some bakers say, baking takes a lot of time, but for the most part it's not YOUR time.

Michael Pollan

#11. You got a boyfriend or something?"
I hate it when he figures me out before I have a chance to do it myself.
Especially when I've been counting on at least seven more years of denial.

Steve Kluger

#12. Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths.
Truth is a relationship.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#13. What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

Michelle Sagara

#14. Good writers borrow. The best writers steal.

Aaron Sorkin