Nils Christie Quotes

#1. Life is hard enough without having to avoid entire rooms in my own head.

Sabaa Tahir

#2. Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

Hudson Taylor

#3. Be a little kinder than you have to.
Never eat anything bigger than your ass
Do not accept an evil you can change
Always do what your afraid to do

E. Lockhart

#4. When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.

Donald Rumsfeld

#5. Dumb fuckin' luck.

Martin Blank

#6. The bravest thing that men do is love women.

Mort Sahl

#7. I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries with close ties to Russia.

Garry Kasparov

#8. History never repeats itself, historians do.

Lee Benson

#9. The cabinets and shelves are a bright busy choreography of oils, shampoos, conditioners, scrubs, lotions, salts, unguents. Zinnia loves buying pots and bottles and tubes of alchemised essences that smell like yearning or intimacy on the skin.

Glenn Haybittle

#10. A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

Seneca The Younger

#11. Sometimes you just can't hear yourself. Maybe ears are too close to the mouth.

Anna Camp

#12. His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him

John Calvin

#14. I know where I am going now with art. I have found myself. Yvonne Rust 1994, aged 72.

Theresa Sjoquist

#15. Authors, I would soon learn, sometimes bite when their egos are underfed.

Jason Epstein