C.J. Tudor Quotes

Principles are nice things. If you can afford them. I like to think I am a principled man, but then, most men do. The fact is, we all have a price, we all have buttons that can press to make us do things that are not entirely honorable. Principles do not pay the mortgage or clear our debts. A principled man is generally a man who has everything he wants or absolutely nothing to lose.

All the stuff we take for granted can just be ripped away

Never have regrets. You make a decision, and you make it for the right reason at the time. Even if it proves to be the wrong decision later, you live with it.

But she had done a lot of things over the last three years that she had never thought herself capable of. None of us know, until pushed, what our limits truly are. How far we would go for those we love.

People say there's nothing stronger than love. They're right. That's why the worst atrocities are always committed in its name.

Thin, I think, that fabric between realities. Maybe minds aren't lost. Maybe they just slip through and find a different place to wander.

For who are we if not the sum of our experiences, the things that we gather and collect in life? Once you strip those away, we become just a mass of flesh, bone, and blood vessels.

Real friends are something different. Real friends are there, no matter what. Real friends are people who love and hate in equal measure, but who are as much a part of you as yourself

He's dead.'
'Dead?'
Funny how people always repeat that word, even though they know they've heard it correctly. A kind of denial by delay.

But that's not entirely. My life has been defined by the things I didn't do. The things I didn't say think it's the same for a lot of people. What shapes us is not always our achievements but our omissions. Not lies: simply the truths we don't sell.

People say time is a great healer. They're wrong. Time is simply a great eraser. It rolls on and on regardless, eroding our memories, chipping away at those great big boulders of misery until there's nothing left but sharp little fragments, still painful but small enough to bear.

No one ever found any answers at the bottom of a bottle. Not the point, of course. The point of reaching the bottom of the bottle is generally to forget the questions.

People say hate and bitterness will destroy you. They're wrong. It's hope. Hope will devour you from the inside like a parasite. It will leave you hanging like bait above a shark. But hope won't kill you. It's not that kind.

You're fading, slipping from my memories. Because memories are only as strong as the people who hold onto them. And I'm tired. I don't know if I can hold on for much longer.

However, even as a kid, I could sense the anger - the venom - of those protesters. Something about their eyes, the spittle that exploded from their mouths, the way they brandished their banners like weapons. They were chanting a lot of stuff about love but they seemed full of hate.

That's the thing with adults. Sometimes it doesn't matter what you say; they only hear what they want to hear.

Assuming can trip us up in other ways too. It can stop us seeing people for who they really are and make us lose sight of the people we know.

There are some things in life you can alter – your weight, your appearance, even your name – but there are others that wishing and trying and working hard can never make any difference to. Those things are the ones that shape us. Not the things we can change but the ones we can't.

You might not be able to judge a book by it's cover, but you can certainly judge the person who owns the book.

None of it was true but rumors are like germs. They spread and multiply almost in a breath and before you know it, everyone is contaminated.

Wise man. Kids from the moment they're born, they fill your heart with love…and terror. Especially little girls. You want to protect them from everything. And they you can't, you feel like you've failed as a father. You've saved yourself a lot of pain by not having children.

Secrets are like arseholes. We all have them. It's just that some are dirtier than others.