Cheston Black Quotes & Sayings

Statin drugs are meant to lower cholesterol in your blood. But there is an asymmetry, and a severe one. One needs to treat fifty high risk persons for five years to avoid a single cardiovascular event. Statins can potentially harm people who are not very sick, for whom the benefits are either minimal or totally nonexistent. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Such efforts show the truth of the remark of St. Ambrose: that the saints were no less liable than ourselves to fall into faults; but that they had greater care to practise virtue, and to correct the faults into which they fell. — Candide Chalippe

Someone appeared, with gentle and penetrating eyes, who - with no exchange of words - understood; and before whose glance her eyes dropped. The someone had no face, no form, no voice, no odour. He was a simple Presence, an all-embracing tenderness with strength and a promise of rest. — Toni Morrison

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me. — Zane Grey

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. — David Graeber

I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop! — Edan Lepucki

He hadn't worn the kilt since Culloden, but his body had not forgotten the way of it. — Diana Gabaldon

Then again, modern day men were stupid — Rose Wynters

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are? — Alexander Pope