Christopher Quotes

Nothing makes a person desire improvement like failure

Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on ChristopherLehman.com)

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.

Come to the edge.We might fall.Come to the edge.It's too high!COME TO THE EDGE!And they cameAnd he pushedAnd they flew.

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.

knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.

There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.

...education has always meant the initiation of the young into the social and spiritual inheritance of the community: in other words, education has meant the transmission of culture.

...the more widely we extend the range of education, the more necessary it is to provide some principle of cohesion to counterbalance the centrifugal tendencies of specialization and utilitarianism.

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

Humankind has turned to world into a cruel and inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.

What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.

You can hear a song in every word if you listen closely enough.

(...)best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!

Yes it is" Eragon said before his courage left him "just like you

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Nothing proves evolution more than the survival of the religious belief. It shows we are still fearful, partially formed animals with a terror of death and the dark

In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

It’s like a haunted house we can’t leave, ’ Neil said.A haunted house we’re afraid to leave, Tony thought.

There comes a time when loneliness is stronger than fear.

There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue.

War soaks into your bones, drills down into the marrow like a parasite. It blots your life like ink spilled on snow white paper, and it has its perils even long after you've given it up.

...the Pope vigorously upholds the real power of redemption to liberate the human heart from the domination of lust, calling men and women to a new "ethos.

[He]said something that made it impossible to continue working for him.[The exact words were]You're fired.

Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?

The pressures of business relationships: so I tell the guy I usually have my tea time at 10 o’clock every morning. He calls me at noon (very upset) because I didn’t meet him on the golf course.

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.

Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.

Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.

Corrupt judicial practices in Russia, America, China, Great Britain, and other countries only vary by a single degree: the cost of services.

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?

There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet.

Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thouOr any man that breathes on earth.

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

We have to do a better job at the work of anthropology if we hope to maintain our role in the public discourse.

Our willingness to embrace the realities of our neighbor's difficulty is what empowers our witness and makes our testimony of Christ effective and hearable.

The sense of a soul and afterlife is an intuitive illusion.

And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.

I like a girl with a substantial bottom, ' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.

Whistler, ' Manet called. 'How's your mother?

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you.

There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money.

People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.