Chalfield Quotes & Sayings

Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard.
p 44 — Michael Perry

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe. — Alain De Botton

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. — Milton Friedman

Werner Heisenberg put it, "what we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." Heisenberg, a German physicist, made this observation regarding quantum mechanics, but it holds equally true for explorations of the animal — Frans De Waal

Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you. — Neale Donald Walsch

The whole voting thing had seemed like such a good idea when he'd first brought it up. After losing his first vote, not so much. They'd all be dead in two days, so at least it probably wouldn't happen again. "If — James S.A. Corey

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place! — Carl William Brown

I'd like to believe that I would be able to give in the same way Mandela did, but in reality, I don't know whether that is true. It is much more likely that I would be left with an immense sense of injustice and immense desire for revenge. — Naomie Harris

People talk about things happening and it being "unbelievable," and it's exactly the reverse. It's really believable, but we are so conditioned to believe that these kinds of things are just coincidences, that they're just things that show up arbitrarily in our lives, when the fact is that all of us have this kind of guidance available to us. — Wayne Dyer