Checkmarket Quotes & Sayings

Or some flat-bellied scow out of Aegypt, treasure-laden? — Mark Lawrence

Discipline must be maintained. — Charles Dickens

but the effort of setting the table, heating up the food and then washing the dishes seemed to him tonight a superhuman one. — Jose Saramago

True civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power. — Archibald Cox

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust. — Thomas Ruff

We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of nothing; we have not had to pay for it with our lives. But it would be a grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us. Each of us has to earn freedom anew in order to possess it. We do so not just for our own sake, but for the sake of our children, so that they may build a better future that will sustain over the world the responsibilities and blessings of freedom. — Margaret Thatcher

That was the problem with public art, it risked great ridicule. — Joy Williams

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans. — Jim Cramer

I still don't believe it. It's not in him.
Yeah, and you are delusional. Babe, news flash, with the exception of you and the pirate, we're all animals here. And we all have a killer's instinct. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

When you are on the knife's edge - when nobody knows exactly what is going to happen next, only that it will be worse - you take in today. — Anne Lamott

People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

Reality can be mischievous at times, fragile, fleeting; with the potential to change vastly without warning. — Steven Redhead