Chekesha Clark Quotes & Sayings

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time. — Idries Shah

How you spend your time defines who you are. — Oprah Winfrey

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft. — Rumi

Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?' — Robert Hass

I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe. — Al Lewis

I have never, not once, violated my public trust. — Alan Mollohan

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike. — Patrick Rothfuss

Why, O Gish, does thou run about?
The life that thou seekest, thou wilt not find. — Anonymous

You bite on reflex, and then your conscience bites you. — Scott Lynch

To be young and to experience the feeling of being alive is a sweet feeling. To feel alive and to have a purpose and a goal to that life is better still. — James Rozoff

I think the American people would be compassionate and practical. But we need to be talking about assimilation as well, something that is politically incorrect, I know, to say that people should learn English, should learn American exceptionalism, shouldn't come here to use our freedoms to undermine the freedoms we give to everybody. But there's nothing wrong with saying people who want to come here should want to be Americans. — Bobby Jindal

One thing I do know is things can always get worse, most often at the precise moment you've decided they can't. — Karen Marie Moning

This is what conservatives have spawned with their welfare cuts and their indifference to the plight of those not like themselves, say my colleagues at the university. This is what liberals have spawned with their fostering of the victim mentality and their indifference to the traditional values of hard work and family, my father used to tell his cheering audiences. In my sour moments, it strikes me that both sides seem much more interested in winning the argument than in alleviating these women's suffering. — Stephen L. Carter

Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to. — Catherine Lacey

The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. — Jerry Brown