Chambertron Re Quotes & Sayings

Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk — Seneca.

The case was becoming serious. It was now past midnight. The hotels at Shiplake and Henley would be crammed; and we could not go round, knocking up cottagers and householders in the middle of the night, to know if they let apartments! George suggested walking back to Henley and assaulting a policeman, and so getting a night's lodging in the station-house. But then there was the thought, "Suppose he only hits us back and refuses to lock us up!"
We could not pass the whole night fighting policemen. Besides, we did not want to overdo the thing and get six months. — Jerome K. Jerome

Lusting over your best friend's girlfriend sucks. First off, there's the awkward factor. As in, it's really fucking awkward. — Elle Kennedy

Your weaknesses are the key to the unimaginable bigger future that God has envisioned for you. Your strengths are probably already bearing all the fruit they can. They will continue to bear those good fruits in your life, but at some point they will begin to plateau. Your richer, more abundant future is intimately linked to your weaknesses. — Matthew Kelly

It wasn't that Lorrie Ann was becoming a Goody Two-shoes. It wasn't that she wanted to be perfect or loved or approved of. No. She wanted something much more dangerous. She wanted meaning. And she thought it could be gotten by following the rules. — Rufi Thorpe

To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal. — John Stuart Mill

On any given day, I don't think there's anybody who can outdrive me. That's the mind set I have going into every race. — Kevin Harvick

Each human being has the right to two blessings: getting things right and getting things wrong. In the latter case, there will always be a kind of apprenticeship that will lead him back to the right path. — Paulo Coelho

You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for a child, there's nothing else like it. No other love so consuming. — Cassandra Clare

Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned. — Katherine Paterson

We are responsible for everything we do and do not do. — Michelle Hodkin

Together with this outrage we may take the mutilation of the novel called The Search at the exact point where the author upholds, or appears for the moment to uphold, the doctrine that loyalty to the abstract truth must override all personal considerations; — Dorothy L. Sayers

Writers are the people who are most awkward with words. Their whole life revolves around one right word. — Saket Suryesh