Chelton Loft Quotes & Sayings

He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine,
he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays for sunshine. He
follows the same idea in everything that he prays for; for what is the
amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change
his mind, and act otherwise than he does? It is as if he were to say - -
thou knowest not so well as I. — Thomas Paine

I love Prince, thought he was super dope. — Deon Cole

What matters is the character of ... stereotypes, and the gullibility with which we employ them. And these in the end depend upon ... our philosophy of life. If in that philosophy we assume that the world is codified according to a code which we possess, we are likely to make our reports of what is going on describe a world run by our code. But if our philosophy tells us that each man is only a small part of the world, that his intelligence catches at best only phases and aspects in a coarse net of ideas, then, when we use our stereotypes, we tend to know that they are only stereotypes, to hold them lightly, to modify them gladly. We tend, also, to realize more and more clearly when our ideas started, where they started, how they came to us, why we accepted them. All useful history is antiseptic in this fashion. It enables us to know what fairy tale, what school book, what tradition, what novel, play, picture, phrase, planted one preconception in this mind, another in that mind. — Walter Lippmann

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. — E. T. Bell

Vampire in real life aren't like the ones in the movies. They weren't going to be playing baseball in a thunderstorm. — Jacqueline Carey

The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it, catch the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it, catch on to the idea and you forget about the words. Where shall I find a man who forgets about words, and have a word with him? — Zhuangzi

Living our vocation to be protectors of God's handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience. — Pope Francis

When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can. — Ian Watson

You know, Mimosa," Nadia says, the name beautiful in her mouth as it's never been in anyone else's, "I think we'll manage," and then she kisses her like she means it; like solid proof; like, finally, coming home. — Kady Morrison

Shift your attention, and your emotion shifts. Shift your emotion, and your attention shifts. — Frederick Dodson

I know I please where I must please the most. — Sophocles

Sometimes the hardest one to see ... is the one standing right before you. — Lenore Wolfe