Seeking Crystal Quotes

#1. A grifter's got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothin' to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That's a score! No matter what happens.

Donald E. Westlake

#2. The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

Jacques Maritain

#3. I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.

Lawrence Block

#4. I can't bear to look at it. Well I can, I do, I want to, I don't want to, I try not to. Every day I tell myself not to look, and every day I look. I can't help myself, even though there is nothing I want to see there, even though anything I do see will hurt me.

Paula Hawkins

#5. Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.

Harold Ramis

#6. Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.

Ellen DeGeneres

#7. Zed and Sky had stayed behind and were chatting with Will, Sky sitting on Zed's knee as if nothing was going to get them apart again in a hurry. Victor and Uriel were playing cards at the kitchen table. Trace looked cute in an apron, chopping vegetables with a surgeon's precision.

Joss Stirling

#8. He said he needed to unwind. He was furious we all let you go so far. That boy would stop you so much as breaking a nail if he could.

Joss Stirling

#9. Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.

Charles Dickens

#10. Trace is cooking Nonna's lasagna."
"Wow. I must see this."
"He was wearing her little apron and everything."
"Got a camera?

Joss Stirling

#11. It is easy to see the flaws of others, hard to see one's own. One exposes flaws of others, yet hides one's own flaws.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#12. The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

Ronald Reagan

#13. Saul tapped his wife's obstinate chin. "Mrs. Benedict, you certainly are. You promised to obey."
"That was thirty years ago! Before the wedding ceremony caught up with the modern age."
"Well, I for one am holding you to that. Gondola for two, in the moonlight, with champagne and roses.

Joss Stirling

#14. Frown not, old ghosts, if I be one of those
Who make you utter things you did not say,
And mould you all awry and mar your work;
For whatsoever knows us truly knows
That none can truly write his single day,
And none can write it for him upon earth.

Alfred Tennyson

#15. You pushed it too far. You shouldn't take the same risk again."
"Says the guy who got shot.

Joss Stirling

#16. I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.

Ernest Hemingway,

#17. Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#18. Everyone's so nice in Thailand, and it's a beautiful place - the temples, the culture. But everyone's so nice that it's almost inefficient.

Scot Armstrong

#19. I've just had a really evil idea."
"My favourite kind

Joss Stirling

#20. Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

Michel Onfray

#21. The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

Stephen Covey