Chakora Quotes & Sayings

There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we must study, and to whose conditions we must submit, if we would mitigate it. — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

[Joy] does not ignore pain in the world, in another's life or in one's own life. Rather, it goes deeper, seeing confidence in God - and for Christians, in Jesus Christ - as the reason for joy and a constant source of joy. — James Martin

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money. — Gene Tierney

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired. — Aziz Ansari

U.S. society, after all, continues to be starkly segregated along class and race lines, never allowing people to have the sort of interactions necessary to undo prejudices, stereotypes, and oppressions. — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness. — Walker Percy

Warn you that my friend is a compound personality, and therefore it is difficult to blame him as an individual. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Nobody asks anybody to be somebody.
Man for himself and be yourself, buddy! — Toba Beta

[W]hen nations crumble, they often crack along racial or ethnic lines, and there's no reason why it won't happen here, but since racial hatred is as barbaric as they come, I don't wish to live long enough to witness this catastrophe. From 1882 to 1968, white mobs lynched 539 blacks in Mississippi alone, the most in the entire nation, but now, there are white groups who keep tabs on the staggering number of black-on-white murders, maimings, rapes and recreational assaults. Seeing their share of the population decreasing relentlessly, they speak of a white genocide. As for the elites, though they don't welcome social unrest, since it's bad for business, they will benefit from increasing racial animosity since it distracts from the serial crimes they're inflicting on us all. — Linh Dinh

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness. — Ray Lyman Wilbur

I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better. — Samuel Beckett

I think you should do in life what you think you'll make a real difference at. And generally, as a businessperson, you do things you don't really have experience in. — Richard Branson

Principle will, in ... most ... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion. — Thomas Jefferson

The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately. — William Shakespeare