Channary Pen Quotes & Sayings

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication. — Matthew Lesko

On occasion, Frau Mertens, looking clean and fresh, would walk out into the fields to see how things were going. She had a colonial largesse about her. By way of greeting, she said "Heil Hitler" to us, with a smile. We would straightened up from the muddy earth and stare at her. No one said a word. She seemed disappointed. — Edith Hahn Beer

You know what I like about you, Finch? You're interesting. You're different. And I can talk to you. Don't let that go to your head."
... "You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything. — Jennifer Niven

It's sort of like the flood's about to happen and you're Noah. You're on the ark. Yeah, you're okay. But you are not happy looking out at the flood. That's not a happy moment for Noah. — Michael Lewis

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher. — Frank McCourt

I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years. — Joe Flacco

I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced
the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again. — Melissa Bank

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If you want to help someone - get yourself together — Wendy Palmer

We get very little wisdom from success, you know. — William, Saroyan

Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work for social justice. — John M Swomley

The hatred of relatives is the most violent. — Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Incredible in retrospect, all of it, but especially the parts having to do with travel and communications. This was how he arrived in this airport: he'd boarded a machine that transported him at high speed a mile above the surface of the earth. This was how he'd told Miranda Carroll of her ex-husband's death: he'd pressed a series of buttons on a device that had connected him within seconds to an instrument on the other side of the world, and Miranda - barefoot on a white sand beach with a shipping fleet shining before her in the dark - had pressed a button that had connected her via satellite to New York. These taken-for-granted miracles that had persisted all around them. — Emily St. John Mandel

Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better. — Fuzzy Zoeller

Your track record, and great achievements may prompt people to invest their resources such as time and money, not their heart. — Assegid Habtewold