Chiaurelis Quotes & Sayings

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack. — Ron Eldard

Society nowadays tells people that their happiness is all that matters but happiness is never found if it costs someone else's theirs. That is not what happiness is, nor would such a person deserve it, because happiness is forged by the setting aside of self and in doing for others to make them happy first and foremost, so if you have to hurt another human being to "find your happiness," then you have no clue what the word actually means or what it's willing to do, and in being so self-centered and entitled, it's veritably tragic that the only care and concern you have is for yourself. — Donna Lynn Hope

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide. — Maxwell Perkins

They put me in a box, and every time I try to nudge the lid open, they slam it back down. It's like nothing about me is allowed to change. — Becky Albertalli

Return to the land of your fathers; blood calls to blood. — Horton Deakins

The best sentence a man can say to a woman is "I want to meet your parents" or "You will be a good mother one day". — Yuli Pritania

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. — William Feather

is intended to break the spirit, to render harmless those who are thought to be harmful. — Bryce Courtenay

You have to be able to swim in backlash. — Kanye West

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' — Friedrich Nietzsche

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation. — Andre Gide