Chafing Funny Quotes & Sayings

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away. — James Patterson

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi

Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well. — Frances Hesselbein

I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative. — L. Brent Bozell Jr.

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist. — Edmund Burke

I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don't imagine that it's there; it's there waiting to be noticed. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason.
This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch. — Douglas Adams

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human. — Alain De Botton

Fr. Michael Scanlon, in his book Inner Healing, states that, "We have an attitudinal life which operates from the very core of our being. . . . This life determines broad general patterns of relating to others and to God." He then speaks of five different problem patterns that alert him to a need to pray for what he calls a "heart healing." These are: 1) A judgmental spirit that is harsh and demanding on self and others. 2) A strong perfectionist attitude demanding the impossible from self and others. 3) A strong pattern of fearing future events. 4) A sense of aloneness and abandonment in times of decision. 5) A preoccupation with one's own guilt and a compulsion to compete for position and success.[4] — Leanne Payne

They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every hopping, lopsided step, a little slice of agony. — Marian Keyes

It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well. — Deborah Meyler

January is the month for dreaming. — Jean Hersey

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it. — Francis Ford Coppola

A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic. — Peter Lynch