Chancers Shirley Quotes & Sayings

The mortal experience ... is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks. — Neal A. Maxwell

Tomorrow is another day toward death. — Sylvia Plath

I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done. — Ellen Hopkins

Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them? — Alain De Botton

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice. — Mahatma Gandhi

Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement. — Margaret Atwood

The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group and, accordingly, they learned to remain unimpressed by Gentile temporal power. Being unimpressed did not mean being unafraid material power might beat or starve one to death; it did mean refusing to surrender moral hegemony to the majority merely because it had power. — David Riesman

Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed. — Jules Verne

Stores are never nice to people. They're nice to credit cards. — J. F. Lawton

In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed to the chanting of the Amitabh Chaleesa. And people still ask, 'Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?' — Ashwin Sanghi

Few rich men own their property. The property owns them. — Robert G. Ingersoll

You can't negate the ingrained imagination of a whole culture. — Thomas Tryon

I think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and on a cultural level - Bush had 91 percent support in the polls after 9/11. We wanted to kick some ass! — Aleksandar Hemon

One can always find hands for a work of destruction. — Andre Gide