Checkland Cuyahoga Quotes & Sayings

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. — Jorge Luis Borges

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. — H.G.Wells

It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces: in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other. — Michel De Certeau

Just because they were soul mates doesn't mean they had to last forever. Just because they felt true love doesn't mean they couldn't have a new life after that love was over. — Abby McDonald

Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass? — Frank Lautenberg

When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy. — Natalia Kills

I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to. — Max Irons

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927 — Mark Twain

He promised he'd never leave me. That we'd be friends forever."
"He was foolish to promise such things, — Jen Wylie

The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well. — Hanya Yanagihara

When women came up with PMS, men came up with ESPN. — Joan Of Arc

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. — Mikhail Gorbachev

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth