Cross Quotes
2149 Cross quotes by 1410 unique authors
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I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things…
— Charles Bukowski
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Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is…
— Lenny Bruce
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Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,…
— Virginia Woolf
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There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in…
— Madeleine Albright
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Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order…
— John Stott
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What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we…
— Douglas Adams
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Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.
— Jennifer Armintrout
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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so…
— E. M. Forster
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Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all…
— Kage Baker
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I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to,…
— Michael Ondaatje
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And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads…
— Tim O'Brien
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a…
— Hiromu Arakawa
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If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
— P L Travers
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And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of…
— Leonard Cohen
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Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
— A. S. Byatt
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Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens…
— Michael Pollan
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Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all…
— David Foster Wallace
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The bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and…
— Dave Barry
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His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but…
— Henri Nouwen
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When you cross the street, take my hand
— John Lennon
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After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally would…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
— George Carlin
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