Chiamare Quotes & Sayings

People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things you've seen and the people you've met. — Eddie Huang

His valet! In the rush of getting him off, his clumsy damned valet had put the wrong boots on him. Oh, when he got home ... when he got home he would have the oaf punctured! Worse. Dragged through the streets and bitten to death by small children. — L. Ron Hubbard

Sula was wrong. Hell ain't things lasting forever. Hell is change. Not only did men leave and children grow up and die, but even the misery didn't last. One day she wouldn't even have that. This very grief that had twisted her into a curve on the floor and flayed her would be gone. She would lose that too.
Why, even in hate here I am thinking of what Sula said. — Toni Morrison

At that time a psychologist appeared in Oslo, and wrote interesting articles in the paper about how to cure homosexuality. ... This man is a pervert. He wants to change nature. He wants to change the natural growth of love between a woman and a woman, or between a man and a man. If society itself wasn't hostile to love, he would never have been allowed to do that. Can't you see? Why can't you ever get it out of your head that love is against nature? Because that's what you're saying when you say homosexuality is against nature. Didn't nature make me? Or was I the result of some mysterious embryonic experiment, conceived on another planet, and planted in my mother's womb? Because I can assure you: I was born a lesbian. I was a lesbian the moment I came out and said, Boooooo. — Gerd Brantenberg

I wouldn't change any of my reactions — Brandon Marshall

Consistency is a virtue until it gets annoying. — Ursula K. Le Guin

okay. You're not that much below average." "I'm not below average at all! I'm above average! Way, way above average!" Quin shrugged. "Maybe you're a grower, not a shower," he said. "I'm going to throttle you," said Matheus. — Amy Fecteau

My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls ... And I really think that worked out pretty well for me. — George R R Martin

I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity. — BD Wong

What, seen in the perspective of life, is the significance of morality? — Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is no humility, love remains blocked. — Pope Francis

Though Confucius served the Duke of Lu, a Chinese state, he made many enemies with the nobles of the land. His views antagonized the powerful nobles, who wanted the Duke to be a puppet in their hands. Confucius was exiled from the State of Lu for more than two decades. He lived in the countryside, spreading his teachings. — Confucius

We middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility. — Margaret Deland

Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it's there. — Barbara Corcoran