Brakewell Chester Quotes & Sayings

They always asked wistfully what the weather was like, and were not pleased with the answer. They consoled themselves by warning me about skin cancer and the addling effecr of sun on the brain. I didn't argue with them; they were probably right. But addled, wrinkled and potentially cancerous as I might have been, I had never felt better. — Peter Mayle

Where is the outrage of the Muslim community? Why aren't the imams of every mosque holding press conferences, and inviting the media to tell the American public, 'We are Americans first. Any enemy of America is our enemy. We will work to find, stop, arrest, turn in, and condemn anyone in our community who aspires to radicalize our religion and harm our country'? — Brigitte Gabriel

This initiative requires one major change in government policy: Shift the massive subsidies that currently find their way to agribusiness and use that taxpayer money to create the infrastructure for a healthy, affordable food system. This will not happen overnight; it is a long-term initiative that could eventually bring us a sustainable agricultural system. Let's — George Lakoff

The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered. — Howard Zinn

Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view. — Chandra Talpade Mohanty

He who does not believe in hell is in the greatest danger of landing there. — Eduardo Schwank

In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been. — Joe Torre

Even a prison the size of a universe is still a prison. And it is every prisoner's duty to escape. — John C. Wright

Coaching is a powerful relationship for people who are making important changes in their lives. — Laura Whitworth

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life ... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive. — Leonard Baskin

The delight which the mariner feels, when, after having been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon the solid shore, is the satisfaction of a Christian when amidst all the changes of this troublous life, he rests the foot of his faith upon this truth
'I am the Lord, I change not.' — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer. — Isabel Huggan

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal. — Winston Churchill

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something. — Lou Gehrig

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it. — Claes Oldenburg