Chagrins In English Quotes & Sayings

God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God. — Oswald Chambers

Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does. — Bernardine Dohrn

When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. — Hannah Arendt

In 1970, Women's Lib preached universal sisterhood and resistance to "patriarchy" anywhere and in any form; today, Women's Studies, like contemporary establishment feminism generally, is meekly multicultural, treating non-Western social practices with deference even when they involve the brutal subjection of females. — Bruce Bawer

No one else seems as real as he does. — Gabrielle Zevin

Then the 1956 Peace Prize went to Eisenhower and Khrushchev for agreeing not to build the hydrogen bomb. That agreement was now also called the Szilard Treaty. Today the H-bomb was a threshold no one dared cross without exciting hostile moves by all other powers. — Gregory Benford

I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine. — Stephen Furst

I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated. — Derek Jeter

Stress is an unstranformed opportunity for empowerment. — Doc Childre

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. — Henry Ward Beecher