Chalmers Plain Truth Quotes & Sayings

The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity. — Hester Lynch Piozzi

You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through. — Paula McLain

You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail. — Dana Gould

Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans ... — Teresa Of Avila

I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade ... and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party. — Ron White

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself. — Vaclav Havel

Photography is about a single point of a moment. It's like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life. — Nobuyoshi Araki

He read Kolakowski on the danger, implicit in all utopian movements, that if the material of human nature proved too weak or brittle to withstand the stresses that the utopian architecture tried to impose upon it, then the architects might prefer to discard the humans rather than their precious blueprints. He — Daniel Oppenheimer

What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The war, the internal measures against counterrevolution, and the famine (which had created a bureaucratic rationing apparatus) had killed off Soviet democracy. How could it revive, and when? The Party lived in the certain knowledge that the slightest relaxation of its authority would give day to reaction. — Victor Serge