Chaunte Quotes & Sayings

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse. — Branch Rickey

If i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well? — Henry David Thoreau

Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

For the law is not jurisprudence, not a weighty tome full of articles, not philosophical treatises, not peevish nonsense about justice, not hackneyed platitudes about morality and ethics. The law means safe paths and highways. It means backstreets one can walk along even after sundown. It means inns and taverns one can leave to visit the privy, leaving one's purse on the table and one's wife beside it. The law is the sleep of people certain they'll be woken by the crowing of the rooster and not the crashing of burning roof timbers! And for those who break the law; the noose, the axe, the stake and the red-hot iron! Punishments which deter others. — Andrzej Sapkowski

I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice. — Samantha Mumba

Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor. — Ha-Joon Chang

Revenge is a bad policy if you gain nothing out of it, but under the same circumstances, forgiveness is even a worse one. — M.F. Moonzajer

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship. — Stefanie Powers

Reading a good book is like being able to dream while you're awake. The best part is knowing you can re-enter that dream, whenever you wish. — J.Z. Bingham

How do y'all say, 'hoorah' in Angel?
Rude Car. — Amy A. Bartol

The things we teach our children are cheerful, pleasant lies: and it is high time that someone has the fortitude to admit it — Vina Delmar

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. — Pappy Boyington

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed. — Vaclav Klaus

And the guy with her was Lend's dad.
Didn't see that one coming. And, oh bleep, what would Lend think knowing that his dad had been very serious with one of Lend's least favorite people in the world? Or at least I assumed they were very serious, given the number of photos that they were sucking face in.
"Well, that's interesting," I said.
"What's interesting?" Jack called from the other room.
"Something is interesting?" Lend shouted.
"No! Nothing! I mean, nothing important. Keep looking."
"I found a vacuum," Lend said.
"Brilliant!" Jack answered. "Just what we needed! — Kiersten White