Chevalley Quotes & Sayings

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers. — Joe Hill

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself! — Erica Jong

Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success. — Bryant McGill

Pastime with good company
I love and shall, until I die.
Grudge who list, but none deny!
So God be pleased, thus live will I. — Henry VIII Of England

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model. — Shaquille O'Neal

Evil is a cluster of well orchestrated blind spots. When it manifests itself to excess, we protest and want the blind spots that both produce it and conceal it back, and fast. — John Thomas Allen

Hell, yeah, Ryland. Man up and carpe girl. — John Corwin

He had too much cat in his blood - a deep-rooted feline twitch that would travel the length of his nerves to tickle his mind at the faintest sign of a mystery, no matter how small. He could no more let a riddle go unsolved than he could pass by the perfect length of colourful wire without picking it up. — Charles De Lint

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club. — Irrfan Khan

[As Chevalley says,] 'Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect ... — Frances Mayes

[As Garibaldi says,] 'Sleep, my dear Chevalley, sleep, that is what Sicilians want, and they will always hate anyone who tries to wake them ... — Frances Mayes

I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing. — David Henry Hwang

Can I assume you're sober?"
"Nope, had two diet root beers. — Dean Koontz

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those. — Brooks Robinson

Therefore it is not arrogance or narrow-mindedness that leads the economist to discuss these things from the standpoint of economics. No one, who is not able to form an independent opinion about the admittedly difficult and highly technical problem of calculation in the socialist economy, should take sides in the question of socialism versus capitalism. No one should speak about interventionism who has not examined the economic consequences of interventionism. An end should be put to the common practice of discussing these problems from the standpoint of the prevailing errors, fallacies, and prejudices. It might be more entertaining to avoid the real issues and merely to use popular catchwords and emotional slogans. But politics is a serious matter. Those who do not want to think its problems through to the end should keep away from it. — Ludwig Von Mises