Chicago Your My Inspiration Quotes & Sayings

God doesn't know things. He is things. — D.H. Lawrence

I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me. — Ernie Banks

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children. — Ruth Reichl

You're attacking that one like a wolverine. — Cassandra Clare

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it. — Maya Angelou

G.O.D Great Omnipresent Divinity — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Who were all these people, so many of them so brown? What was this ritual unfolding around him? I've never seen a German look as German as Clark did when he assessed his likely assessors. His eyes were like small blue coins behind his glasses. — Walter Kirn

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew. — Leo Tolstoy

Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor. — Lucien Bourjeily

It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing. — Blaise Pascal

Brent suddenly thought back to Miss Gill, the mediator in Chicago, and her saying the effects of an act traveled far beyond one's knowledge. He knew she'd meant harmful acts, like his. He saw now that the same could be said for good deeds-good, bad, and indifferent-sent a wave rolling out of sight. He wondered what his own accounting, generations later, would look like. — Paul Fleischman

All things come to those who go after them. — Rob Estes

I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have made of this. As he tried to push through a crowded aisle, he said loudly: "Life is never easy. And it's never pleasant." I couldn't let this go. I looked up at him from my seat and said, "I do hope life gives you cause to change that opinion. Otherwise you may find that opinion walking ahead of you, giving you more and more reasons to believe it. — Robert Moss

I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration. — Colleen Atwood

The secret to recruiting is not in convincing people, but in sorting people. You can wear yourself out and become discouraged, working with the same "empty oysters." Your job as a professional recruiter is only to sort through the prospects until you find one who wants to be a distributor. It is ten times easier to locate a prospect who wants to work, than to convince an unwilling disinterested prospect to work. — Tom "Big Al" Schreiter

ONE HUNDRED TIMES have I been on the point of embracing
her. Heavens! what a torment it is to see so much loveliness
passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold
of it! And laying hold is the most natural of human instincts.
Do not children touch everything they see? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself. — Thomas Brooks