Cheow George Quotes & Sayings

People, especially women, are judged on their bodies. And food, far from being a source of energy and enjoyment, becomes a battleground of guilt and shame and excess and deprivation. Everywhere we look, success and sexiness and happiness seem to belong to the thin. — Emma Woolf

The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past. — Susan Sontag

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West. If one looks around the Western world, one can see the rumblings of discontent, almost regardless of polictical systems, as we come face to face with the problems that the modern age has dealt us. — Hillary Clinton

My parents were never really married, by which I mean they never bothered making their relationship official with any church. I'm not embarrassed by the fact. They considered themselves married and didn't see much point in announcing it to any government or God. I respect that. In truth, they seemed more content and faithful than many officially married couples I have seen since. — Patrick Rothfuss

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most. — Bryant McGill

I smoke all the time, one after the other. — Greta Garbo

It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise. — Brady Anderson

Travelling in the places where no man has travelled before is the only way to reach the places where no man has reached before! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid. — Al Purdy

I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They've taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them. — Josie Loren

I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom. — Anurag Kashyap

Do not remain loyal to those or that which is disloyal to you. Loyalty is not always a human obligation. — Art Hochberg

They have pulled down deep heaven on their heads. — C.S. Lewis

Where is your unit?" Murphy asked.
I wiggled my eyebrows at her. "Right where it's always been, dollface. — Jim Butcher