Chartista Quotes & Sayings

Let's all sing the redneck national anthem: Settle for what you can get. — Barbara Kingsolver

Fortunately I've got a weak character, so I never did decide to dedicate myself to only one of my professions. And I'm very glad. After all, if I'd rejected chess or music then my life wouldn't have been two times, but a hundred times less interesting. — Mark Taimanov

They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight. Heavyweight title fights should be huge events, not an afterthought in a country most famous for producing chocolate. — David Haye

Our Father in heaven is surely on the side of fathers on earth who love their children. — Honore De Balzac

The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion. — Benjamin Graham

The exuberant exaggerations of the Irish sagas are not for the northern gods; Freyja, Thor, Loki have the robust common sense which the Vikings themselves admired hugely, — Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson

You can't raise happy kids in a happy family if you aren't happy and don't know who you are. You can't pin your life on someone else's happiness. — Jean Oram

Hey, sweet butt, he said. That broke the spell. Sweet butt? What the hell kind of guy called a girl he'd never met something like that? — Joanna Wylde

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate. — George Crabbe

A road trip with your ancient mommy is just what you need after falling off a mountain and having your soul ripped out by your best friend. — Natasha Larry

The bonobo would first of all urge the atheist to stop "sleeping furiously." There is no point getting all worked up about the absence of something, especially something as open to interpretation as God. — Frans De Waal

It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way. — Gorillaz