Checkhang Quotes & Sayings

He didn't have the ability to empathize with her because he could not get past himself. — Henry Cloud

I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. — Daniela Bobadilla

A good show makes me happy. It's a great sensation. If you could capture a great atmosphere and do it every time, that would be amazing. — Bruno Tonioli

The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter's intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who is able to separate her identity from her daughter's, has the key to achieving the right balance. — Susan Shapiro Barash

Sometimes, simple faith could lead to profound peace. — Amish Tripathi

For your wedding gift, I wish I had a spell that could make you see yourself as others do.' 'Based — Deborah Harkness

In sum, freedom can run a monetary system as superbly as it runs the rest of the economy. Contrary to many writers, there is nothing special about money that requires extensive governmental dictation. Here, too, free men will best and most smoothly supply all their economic wants. For money as for all other activities of man, liberty is the mother, not the daughter, of order. — Murray N. Rothbard

Instead, she found her argument in the "doctrine of necessity," an idea established in common law that in certain limited circumstances, which no parliament would ever care to define, it was permissible to break the criminal law to prevent a greater evil. — Ian McEwan

Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don't like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it's vapid, so they'll go for the hard words, they'll go for the hard concepts, they'll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things. — Maurice Sendak

Theories without data are like daydreams. — Jonathan Rottenberg

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer. — Pat Barker

You may be on land, yet not in a garden. — George Herbert

There are indeed times when one should TRUST blindly, just as there are times when one should not. WISDOM consists in being able to tell one from the other. — Daniel Quinn

The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all. — Patricia Hampl

Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The geography of the earth, or the structure of the solar system, are in an instant utterly changed, and forever. The explorer, the scientific observer, the literary reader, experience the Sublime: a moment of revelation into the idea of the unbounded, the infinite. — Richard Holmes