Chaumiere Quotes & Sayings

As they sailed farther from the coast, the sky darkened and more stars came out. Percy studied the constellations - the ones Annabeth had taught him so many years ago. — Rick Riordan

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers. — Gloria Steinem

Black Swans and tail events run the socioeconomic world — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We were here to become like God. To live like his blessed son. We just needed a few pints of Christ's blood to do so. — Christopher Pike

Any place you don't want to stay becomes your prison! That's why there are many prisoners all around the world who look like free men! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

An Op-Ed by a Republican criticizing the Democrats, or vice versa, is easy to come by and not that interesting. But a Democrat who takes issue with his or her party, or a Republican who does that, is more valuable. — Andrew Rosenthal

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. — John Le Carre

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. — Theodore Parker

The vision of this massive body of water with towering monoliths jutting straight upward to the heavens, stole our ability to think.Colors that made the wildflowers look dull, streaked up and down across the great pillars of hardened rock. The clouds and sky were mirrored in the glassy surface of the deep expanse of lake. — Danielle Rohr

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too. — Bob Balaban

A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts. — Pink

In Jump Time's developing hybrid world, capacities once nurtured in separate societies are available to the entire family of humankind. This is a stupendous happening, as important as the discovery of new continents during the time of the great sea journeys. For the first time in human history the genius of the human race is available for all to harvest. These rediscovered capacities may be evolutionary accelerators, now being gathered from many places, times, and cultures to awaken our species to who we are and what we yet may be and do. Often, however, it is not comfortable. We can for a time find ourselves strangers in a very strange land, wishing we could return to the comforts of a more insular and familiar worldview. Yet when we get beyond the shutterings of our local cultural trance, we gain the courage to nurture the emerging forms of the possible human and the possible society. — Jean Houston

I had collages in my bedroom when I was a teenager. — Brie Larson

Let the Bible fill the memory, rule the heart, and guide the feet. — Henrietta Mears

You claim you want to be heard.

So you write your hollow words.

You fill your life with deception.

Because it's all about perception.

The world sees you one way.

And they listen to all you say.

You crave their attention.

To feed your addiction.

You have two sides.

Two faces.

You're trying to hide.

In two places. — Kasie West