Chelli Quotes & Sayings

I hated to serve men in any way. — Sylvia Plath

So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection. — Marlon Riggs

Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day. — Robin Sharma

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection. — John Calvin

Its. A. Chicken. There ain't no Chef Boyardee prepackaged meals in nine different flavors. — Alessandra Torre

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth. — Margaret Fuller

No woman can be gotten with child without some knowledg, consent and delight in the acting thereof." Charles J. Hoadly, ed., Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, From May, 1653, to the Union (Hartford: Case, Lockwood, 1858), 123; — Jill Lepore

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds. — John Ortberg

Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?"
Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children. — J.M. Barrie

One bright dusk, four, five, no, my God, six summers ago, I strolled along a Greenwich avenue of mature chestnuts and mock oranges in a state of grace. Those Regency residences number amount London's Costliest properties, but should you ever inherit one, dear Reader, sell it, don't live in it. Houses like these secrete some dark sorcery that transforms their owners into fruitcakes. One such victim, an ex-chief of Rhodesian polices, had, on the evening in question, written me a check as rotund as himself to edit and print his autobiography. My state of grace was thanks in part to this check, and in part to a 1983 Chablis from the Duruzoi vineyard, a magic potion that dissolves our myriad tragedies into mere misunderstandings. — David Mitchell

China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Someone else always has to carry on the story. — J.R.R. Tolkien