Cherney Quotes & Sayings

One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self. — Rosellen Brown

Or perhaps it's the wickedness in him that she can't resist. There are such women. — Madeleine Brent

It doesn't cost anything to pay attention. — Scott Cherney

Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented. — Andrew Sullivan

I'm not and environmentalist. I'm and earth warrior. — Darryl Cherney

At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring. — Scott Cherney

I understand that art is a necessary component of a civilized society, but you cannot just go around shooting people. That's going to be a problem. — Kevin Wilson

After all, what were cowboys but the gang bangers of their time? — Scott Cherney

I have a request to make,my lord."
He held her gaze; she could see him trying to decide what she might ask, but eventually he surrendered."And that is?"
"Take me to your bed. — Stephanie Laurens

Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it upon herself to organize Georgia Pacific sawmill workers into the IWW ... Well guess what friends, environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry! — Darryl Cherney

It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it! — Rachel Vincent

Technology is a goddamn bully. — Scott Cherney

Now we cannot ... discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, You must do this. I can't. — C.S. Lewis

We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good. — John Oldham

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. — Darryl Cherney

Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me. — Kurt Bills

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill. — Franz Grillparzer

Most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War. — Randall Jarrell

When it's one animal, you really do have a tougher time because you've gotta commit to story structures that maybe are difficult to find the range in the animal to tell those stories. There are only so many things they do, if they're living in the natural world, that we can appreciate. There are plenty of things that they do that we don't appreciate. — David Douglas