Chalado Quotes & Sayings

Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food ... and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free. — Thomas S. Monson

Books are like puppies, they wait for you with unconditional love and welcome you back whenever you return. — J.D. Barker

On the recommendation of my professor in experimental physics, Paul Scherrer, I took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva in November 1953. This laboratory was animated by Eduard Kellenberger, and it had two prototype electron microscopes requiring much attention. — Werner Arber

The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory. — Smith Wigglesworth

[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't. — Margot Asquith

Addiction is nothing but voluntary madness. — Narcotics Anonymous

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going. — Gary Cole

Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what's happening. — Pema Chodron

Sure, we thought the acres
That we tilled were sacred,
But how could we have known
That wheat can haunt like ghosts — Sherman Alexie

The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and 20th centuries, paved the way for two ideologies that dragged Europe and the world into an abyss and plunged it into a catastrophe. — Walter Kasper

In this calm and stupid life,
I never know how I should act. — Fernando Pessoa

[T]he mind cannot always brood on the same cares, but needs fresh cares from time to tome, so as to revert with renewed vigour, when the time comes, to ancient cares. — Samuel Beckett

To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Vishram is a building like the people living in it, middle class to its core. Improvement or failure, it is incapable of either extremity. — Aravind Adiga