St Crispin Quotes

#1. Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.

Gary Zukav

#2. In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep.

William Cornelius Van Horne

#4. How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?

Simon Cheshire

#5. I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.

Kathryn Harrison

#6. It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures ... I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Tove Jansson

#7. Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Joseph Barbera

#8. Don't eat the yellow snow.

Frank Zappa

#9. There's so much crap talked about acting.

Ben Kingsley

#10. I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say, if you know one of us, it's hard to hate us.

Lesley Gore

#11. I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China ... I don't know who it was ... it must have been a man ... a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing ... and God looked down ... and saw Gladys Aylward ... and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'

Gladys Aylward

#12. Keep your thoughts and your mind always going forward ahead on the roads of life, just as you would do driving your car.

Timothy Pina

#13. He couldn't remember the last time human hands had willingly touched him.
Not true. Miranda had. She had touched him as if he were just a man.
He had lived on those moments ever since, pulled them to the fore when loneliness threatened to suck him down and drown him

Kristen Callihan

#14. Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer necessary for them to do so.

Frederick Lenz