Short Christmas Sayings

#1. In short, Christmas is God's answer to the slavery of self-salvation. Jesus came to liberate us from the pressure of having to fix ourselves, find ourselves, and free ourselves.

Tullian Tchividjian

#2. In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value

Charles Dickens

#3. I'm so glad I put a hot, naked guy on my Christmas wish list. I just didn't think Santa would actually deliver one.

Patricia W. Fischer

#4. I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.

Jim Butcher

#5. The librarian is a caricature of librarian - short white hair, horn-rimmed glasses, a bosom you could hide Christmas presents under and a New England-tight-ass face that looks like she hasn's taken a shit since her family came over on the Mayflower.

Bart Yates

#6. Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

Francis Bacon

#7. Who would have thought God would send a bad man and a sheriff just to save Prince?

Debra Holland

#8. You can experience ecstasy in any dimension and at any time. Enlightenment is not related to where your physical or astral body may be, or to any experiences that you may be having with them. Enlightenment is beyond dimensionality

Frederick Lenz

#9. Life's too short to say no when love shows up at your door.

Roxanne Snopek

#10. It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.

Herman Melville

#11. In a season like this,
I wouldn't be held by the snow.
With all these feelings of bliss,
I've to put aside my ego
And step out to let you know,
With you, I'm well pleased
And the love you show,
Is to me the bee's knees.

Emmanuel Aghado

#12. When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

Natalie Goldberg

#13. Louisa rested her head against his shoulder. She inhaled a happy breath and allowed herself to relax and let the connection between them seep into her body.

Debra Holland

#14. Life is short. Jingle your bells.

Eleanor Brownn

#15. I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

James Stockdale

#16. Just let me catch my breath, Red Macalister, and think. You've tipped my teapot handle over spout.

Debra Holland

#17. Sometimes when you're the good guy, you're sort of trapped. "Oh, he can't say that." And even when you're playing a real person like a Steven Biko, you're sort of stuck within those confines. So yeah, bad guys do have more fun.

Denzel Washington

#18. Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#19. I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

Newt Gingrich

#20. It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.

Susan Hill

#21. I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

David Friedman