Edmund Crispin Quotes
THE majority of us are permitted to cope with the important events of our lives in a decently leisurely manner – with ample breathing-space, that is to say, in which to assimilate one shock and recuperate before the next.
Quotes to Explore
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.
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I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go
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I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.
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Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
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All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
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As my colleague Bruce Perry explains it, the brain is formed in a “use-dependent manner.
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I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager.
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I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
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THE majority of us are permitted to cope with the important events of our lives in a decently leisurely manner – with ample breathing-space, that is to say, in which to assimilate one shock and recuperate before the next.
