Chazelle Staples Quotes & Sayings

Memory is the basis of individual personality," Miguel de Unamuno writes, "just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. We live in memory and by memory, and our spiritual life is at bottom simply the effort of our memory to persist, to transform itself into hope, the effort of our past to transform itself into our future. — Christian Wiman

Love: The heart wants what it wants. It doesn't seek other people's opinions; sometimes not even your own. — Steve Maraboli

I'm not afraid to take chances or go off on my own. — Norman Reedus

Learn not from imitating but from emulating. — Debasish Mridha

Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears.
[Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.] — Plautus

It shows him to be a very wealthy man. How did he acquire wealth? He is unmarried. His younger brother is a station master in the west of England. His chair is worth seven hundred a year. — Arthur Conan Doyle

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself. — J.R.R. Tolkien

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889. — Calamity Jane

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet — Tatsumi Hijikata

The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans. — Richard Dawkins

Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting! — Bruce Lee

I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I was wanting to be Whitney Houston, so why did I have to dress in lingerie to do that? I didn't get it. — Nicole Scherzinger

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. — Michael Ledeen