Chicones Quotes & Sayings

We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement. — Lyndon B. Johnson

A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it. — Hilary Mantel

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world. — Tim Crouch

A week ago, Norman would never have dared. But this wasn't a week ago, it was now, and things were different. It was now, and he had to face the truth. — Robert Bloch

You must get your living by loving. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything gets taken over by big business, I don't care what line you're in. — E.B. White

Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight? — Martin Luther King Jr.

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

Good comes to those who lend money generously and conduct their business fairly. - Psalm 112:5 — Gary Chapman

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances. — Helen Keller

The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries
and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God." — Mark Twain

The brave come in many shapes and sizes, — Heather Lyons

That's the problem with boys: They tend to help you only 'cause they fancy you, but there's no unembarrassing way to find out their real motives till it's too late. — David Mitchell