Chertoks Coatesville Quotes & Sayings

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell. — William Shakespeare

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed. — Os Guinness

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. — C.J. Mahaney

For love reflects the thing beloved. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The acrobat practices: He steps on the edge of a chair and leaps to the floor, feeling the rush as the air flares up his face as he falls. Then he sets himself on something higher, like a table then jumps. He scales a ladder to the ceiling, climbs a tree, pole, watchtower. He keeps increasing the height until no one sees him and the fear to jump leaves him completely, layer by layer [. . .] The acrobat imagines there is a highest possible point in the sky where if he were to fall from it the fall would never end. — Wataru Tsurumi

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to. — Beatrice Lillie

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. — Henry David Thoreau

Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar. — Tom Robbins

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days. — Jimmy Hoffa

I was a huge fan of Damien Rice - and I am a huge fan still! — Megan Hilty

But the ifs of history: if Cleopatra's nose had been one inch longer,' he said, 'would Antony have lost the battle of Actium? — William Dalrymple

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new. — Mark Haddon

Things are messed up in the world, that's all. — E. Lockhart

Since when has a man not beaten his wife? If he doesn't beat her, it's either because he doesn't love her or because he isn't a real man. Since when is a man's paycheck or the fruit of the earth or what the chickens lay shared between them, when everybody knows he is the one in charge? Since when has a woman ever done the same things as a man? Besides, she was born with a wound between her legs and without balls, right, Senora Clara? — Isabel Allende