Chequered Past Quotes & Sayings

there is a thin line between losing yourself in God and losing your mind. Two — Elif Shafak

Dreams are chequered commentary made in sleep
Along the deeps of our desires,
moving like riddles through a magic glade
Lightly they touch the leap of hidden fires. — John Bradburn

The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy. — Sigmund Freud

In matters of money there's no such thing as enough. — Jean Anouilh

For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it; chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light. — James Anthony Froude

There's never the right last moment. Even if you get to say good-bye, even if you get to say "I love you", even if you jump off a plane and get a tattoo and hug everyone you've ever met right before you drift off with a smile, it is never the right last moment. There is always more to say, somewhere to go, something to remember. Another discussion, another fight. There is always supposed to be another day. — Pamela Ribon

_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve? — Namsoon Kang

Perhaps it was time to stop choosing small places. — Erin Bow

You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.' — Ellen DeGeneres

I don't wanna have any other kind of job. I can't work among people. I may as well try & make a career out of this. All my life my dream has been to be a big rock star - just may as well abuse it while you can. — Kurt Cobain

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me. — Rachel Cohn

Most people, when they go around not speaking clearly, somewhere in their unconscious they're asking for trouble. — Haruki Murakami

Whirling of her skirts,
a chequered carpet beneath-
sunset dawns outside. — Geetika Kohli

The word 'justification' has itself had a chequered career over the course of many centuries of debate. As the major historian of the doctrine has noted, the word has long since ceased to mean, in ecclesial debates, what it meant for Paul himself - which is confusing, since the debates have gone on referring to Paul as though he was in fact talking about what they want to talk about. It is as though the greengrocer treated you to a long discussion of how onions are grown, and how best to cook with them, when what you had asked was how much he would charge for three of them. — N. T. Wright

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. — Maggie Smith

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. — Robert Louis Stevenson

One last song. One last turn. One last street. No matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you -Rhiannon — David Levithan

The world that used to nurse us
now keeps shouting inane instructions.
That's why I ran to the woods. — Jim Harrison

I am an advocate ... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would be what we ought to be doing. — Christopher Dodd

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. — James Madison

We live in media, as fish live in water. — Ted Nelson

Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and chequered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture. — John R.W. Stott

There exists no temple more beautiful and more calming than the nature itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this duty conscientiously, they would give us fewer pictures chequered with vivid contrasts of light and shade; they would seldom elevate their heroes and heroines to the heights of rapture - still seldomer sink them to the depths of despair; for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savour the acrid bitterness of hopeless anguish. — Charlotte Bronte

Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture. — Martin Luther