Chaparrals Quotes & Sayings

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. — C. G. Jung

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position. — Leonard Mlodinow

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself. — Sarah MacLean

The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet. — Swami Vivekananda

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town. — Emma Thompson

The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created — Walter Bagehot

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it. — William E. Simon

Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific. — Gene Simmons

I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear. — Georges St-Pierre

Close your eyes, imagine yourself in the world of your dreams, imagine everything you ever wanted, live that moment, get the feel of it. Once you've lived that moment in your mind fully, open your eyes and get started with work, work as hard as possible, do all that it takes to live that moment in real. Just do it, it's possible. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Judge your life using your own blessings and not others. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music. — Neville Marriner