Chiefer Quotes & Sayings

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that. — Rosa Bonheur

Absolutely not. It's just that I kind of work for Ethan, and it will be really hard to face him if I have to hear about all of your sex-capades. — Samantha Chase

I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness. — Martin Seligman

Colonel Cathcart had courage and never hesitated to volunteer his men for any target available. — Joseph Heller

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little. — Charlotte Bronte

I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have. — Gwendoline Riley

I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me's no joke. — John Barth

I remember, as a kid, when I first understood that only half of every tree is visible, that the roots in the soil are equal to the branches in the sky, that a whole other half is underground. It took me a lot longer, well into adulthood, to realize people are like that too. — Elan Mastai

In India, we kind of concentrate only on weight loss. I want to teach people that it is very important to be strong and fit, rather than just thin. — Bipasha Basu

When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line. — Hill Harper

Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is not found only at the end of the rainbow. Love is at the beginning also, and from it springs the beauty that arched across the sky on a stormy day. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shining through death. How rich are those who enjoy it in their associations with family, friends, and neighbors! Love, like faith, is a gift of God. It is also the most enduring and most powerful virtue. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked. — Mike Mignola

If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system. — Elizabeth Warren

The soldier looked around the dusty airfield to see troops and supplies being dropped off and flown away with an equal lack of ceremony. Unfortunately, his platoon was just arriving, and the plane that brought them was just departing. A hot wind — J. Scott Matthews

Let Death Bless Me With You — HIM