Chamonix Snowboards Quotes & Sayings

I could help you," I said. "Counseling, drugs, a religious advisor, a girlfriend. — Janet Evanovich

....[T]he night terrors were no match for the glory of waking up to a new day in the Land of Israel. In every conscious moment, Yael was aware that she was living through times that would form the legends and myths of future generations. Just as her generation told and retold the story of the Exodus from Egypt - the event that changed the nature of Israel forever - so would her people hundreds of years from now tell of the end of the Great Exile and the return to this land. The wonder of it touched everything around her, casting a golden glow over even the most mundane events. Nothing seemed impossible, and nothing seemed entirely real. — Yael Shahar

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics. — Barack Obama

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end. — Leonardo Da Vinci

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall. — Barry Lopez

The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought. — Chogyam Trungpa

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government. — Barack Obama

We're a telephone family, strung out along the wires, sharing our news in loops and daisy chains. We don't meet face-to-face much, and when we do there's a dematerialized feeling, as though only half of our molecules are present. — Walter Kirn

It's always a struggle to make things sound more or less brilliant. — Victoria Legrand

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important. — Gloria Steinem

The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it. — Sylvester Stallone

Body does what mind prefers. — Lenny Krayzelburg