C. J. Dennis Quotes

It's all connected you know

We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing's built to last, not even shame.

I often wonder if I am entitled to be as happy as I am, given the amount of suffering in the world.

This was too much for him to handle. It was like watching memories of his life play out from a different camera angle, sometimes with new scenes added. He was living DVD extras.

A boy trained to break into secure facilities? Perhaps Kowaski wasn't entirely responsible for today's failures after all. Oops.

Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love.

You can never be free of their criticism until you no longer seek their praise.

I'd spent my whole career dealing with badasses taking care of my nine-month-old boy should be a lark.

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.

The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word ‘poverty’ suggests.

Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

In the silence of the mountain there is much you can learn.

This secular Leftist denial of human free will is one of the reasons the Left recoils from labeling evil as evil, and (correctly) ascribes talk about good and evil to the religious.

Um. Ways in which a sentence beginning with the word "missiles" could be a good thing... Nope. I got nuthin'.

When they'd first come out in the morning, a single flounder lay flapping and puffing in the breezeway, one sad, swollen eye looking back toward the sea.

Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride.

One does not change a feeling by focusing on that feelings. One changes a feeling by changing one's behaviors and or one's thoughts

She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.

A rich man who robs from the poor is really a pauper in the land of morality.

....I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity—akin to torture.

Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something new.

It will always be foolish to ask a cheater if they would ever cheat on you.

A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth.

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.

It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.

How can you introduce error into the Bible? Have a human open it. The moment he reads it, the Bible because weighted down with his biases and expectations.

For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is a spiritual experience of living every moment with love, grace and gratitude.

The only people who have no bad tendencies are dead.

The last Bible I looked at contained over 2000 pages, and you humans managed to get yourself kicked out Paradise by page 5. That has to be some kind of record.

she thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night

Wow. This place looks classy. The smell of fertilizer and rot is really in this season. Remind me, what are we doing here?” she asked looking at him with a coy smile. “Did we come for bait?

Much of human communication is a monologue delivered to anyone who will listen. A real dialogue allows many to express and has the chance of leading to more discovery.•

Celebrating love, wherever it is found" (Trevor Dennis). I'm using this sermon title as the essence of my novel

Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.

Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.

I want to keep living in this beautiful dream-world of ours.

All the stuff our fathers took for granted as long as you worked hard, the great safety net and the fair wage and the gold watch at the end of it all? That's all gone around here, my friend.

I threatened to gouge one of his eyes out." Cathy

How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?

You’re the only you you get in this life! Show a little appreciation!

Racism isn’t born, folks. It’s taught. I have a 2-year-old son. Know what he hates? Naps. End of list.

If the sun isn't shining where you are, be the sunshine where you are.

Jehovah’s Witness? Don’t sweat it. I’m going to hell, already booked my ticket. Bright side? I’m pagan. Your hell is my heaven... if for no other reason than you won’t be there.

He was in hell. Worse than that, he was in hell, and someone had set it on repeat.

Was this the stupidest thing I had ever done? Maybe, maybe not. Top ten, at least.

Just because The Past always hung there upon its hooks on the game-room wall, you didn't have to pull it down and use it on yourself.

Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I’d like to believe I’m an expert.