Chawanda Quotes & Sayings

Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two! — Ed Blackwell

Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured. — Luci Swindoll

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain. — Edward Snowden

Do not be fearful. Be humble and feel blessed. You are always in God's Hands. — Paul Stefaniak

This closing chapter takes up three problems about authoritative reason giving that earlier chapters have raised but not resolved: what makes reasons credible, how people who work with specialized sorts of reason giving can make their reasons accessible to people outside their specialties, and what particular problems social scientists face when it comes to communicating their reasons, and reconciling them with the reasons that we as ordinary people give for our actions. Governmental commissions, we will see, offer just one of many ways to broadcast reasons. We will also see that the credibility of reasons always depends on the relation between speaker and audience, in part because giving of reasons always says something about the relation itself. — Charles Tilly

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world. — Henry Miller

German sailors sing a drunken song in the street, and a house spider over the stove spins a new web every night, and to Marie-Laure this is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun. — Anthony Doerr

Football is the ballet of the masses. — Dmitri Shostakovich

Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change? — Bo Burnham

Through those drooping branches the city sprawled out haphazardly like a drunk on a sidewalk, fallen where he may. — Kevin Powers

He realized what a fool he had been. There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse. — Louis L'Amour

All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana. — Frederick Lenz

The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick - how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however - is truth produced! — Friedrich Nietzsche