Chahua Lizard Quotes & Sayings

The Congo is not just blood and gore. It also has an incandescent, raw energy to it, a dogged hustle that can be seen in street-side hawkers and besuited ministers alike. This charm is not unlike that of America's mythical Wild West, full of gunslingers, Bible-thumpers, prostitutes, street urchins, and rogue businessmen. This is the paradox of the Congo: Despite its tragic past, and probably in part due to the self-reliance and ingenuity resulting from state decay, it is one of the most alive places I know.
- Jason Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters — Jason Stearns

Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes. — Victor Hugo

Mistakes are ... immensely useful ... they show us ... where we are right now and what we need to do next — William Westney

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. — Mahatma Gandhi

Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It's just a matter of timing. It's like you've marked your territory. — Lily Tomlin

Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy. Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs. I mean people who are different from others.'
Like you?'
On the other hand,' Zedka continued, pretending not to have heard the remark, 'you have Einstein, saying that there was no time or space, just a combination of the two. Or Columbus, insisting that on the other side of the world lay not an abyss but a continent. Or Edmund Hillary, convinced that a man could reach the top of Everest. Or the Beatles, who created an entirely different sort of music and dressed like people from another time. Those people
and thousands of others
all lived in their own world. — Paulo Coelho

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings. — James G. Frazer

In the very desire for help one is apt to forget that the objective should be to enable the individual to stand on his own feet. — Eleanor Roosevelt

When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional. — Hunter S. Thompson

Moments without you made me realize How Idle I am in my life — Seema Gupta

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press. — Horace Greeley

At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment. — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Nothing is ever going to be as important or as exciting as a baby. Everyone has their highs and lows, but if you've got that one constant in your life - in my case, a baby - the highs are never going to be as big, and the lows are never going to be as bad. — Catherine Tate

In the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything. — Eric Hoffer