Ida Craddock Quotes

#1. When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God."
-Review of Ida Craddock's "Heavenly Bridegrooms

Aleister Crowley

#2. There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

Washington Irving

#3. There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

William Trevor

#4. Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.

Kwame Dawes

#5. Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.

Anne Lamott

#6. The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.

Neal A. Maxwell

#7. To win a little you have to risk something. To win big, you have to risk it all.

Cath Crowley

#8. Our lives disappear, even as we live them.

Katherine Center

#9. Why are you whining? You're scarred. So what? Everyone's a veteran of a fucked-up universe. He

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.

Freida Pinto

#11. Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

Tupac Shakur

#12. My children were the center of my life.

Cindy Sheehan