Checkbooks Unlimited Quotes & Sayings

In the Torah, the Hebrew 'to know', often used in a sexual context, is not about facts but about connections. Knowledge, not as accumulation but as charge and discharge. — Jeanette Winterson

Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?' — Dave Mustaine

Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism. — Niger Innis

Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil — Hesiod

As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in nature; but whether in theater or on a film set, a bad unprofessional photograph at the wrong angle may not be as flattering to some actors, and may be considered a harmful exposure. — Carson Grant

Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her like she's a piece of meat, like she's an animal. That just means you've lost respect for a fellow human being. You're looking at her like an ape looks at a female ape, like a dog looks at a female dog.That's all, you've turned into an animal. Regain your humanity. Lower your gaze. — Nouman Ali Khan

I've never been a goalscorer, only own goals. Good own goals. — Lee Dixon

Sometimes just seeing a woman smile is like a knife in the heart. It hurts and it rattles your whole system, but against all your instincts you swallow the pain and keep looking. After a while you realize it doesn't hurt as much as you thought it would. — Richard Kadrey

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Strange how the present could become the past so quickly. — Jay Bell

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to. — Margaret Heffernan

Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children. — China Mieville

Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone. — Elizabeth Berkley

Astronomy is as soil'd at the hands of the Pelhamites as ev'ry other Business in this Kingdom, - and we ever at the mercy of Place-jobbery, as much as any Nincompoop at Court. — Thomas Pynchon

How many of the things I fear or dread are actually things that I want? — Augusten Burroughs