Chieveley Pre Quotes & Sayings

I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting. — J.D. Salinger

The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses
all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I couldn't master this kind of apathy, no matter how hard I tried. I was built to care - to notice, to overanalyze, to try - in a way that felt inalterable. — Emery Lord

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. — George Haven Putnam

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed." — Friedrich Nietzsche

The battle rages eternal, though the race, religion, gender or sexual orientation of those discriminated against changes regularly. Maybe man's need for a scapegoat is genetically programmed into him. — Josh Lanyon

The first thing that struck me was how the single women of my acquaintance were exceptionally alert to the people around them, generous in their attention, ready to engage in conversation or share a joke. Having nobody to go home to at night had always seemed a sad and lonesome fate; now I saw that being forced to leave the house for human contact encourages a person to live more fully in the world. In the best instances, the result was an intricate lacework of friendships varying in intensity and closeness that could be, it seemed, just as sustaining as a nuclear family, and possibly more appealing. — Kate Bolick

We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil. — Robin S. Sharma

If you get bored with the person you married for love,
there's something wrong with you - not with that person. — Shahrukh Khan

Did the guy who invent the shower cap also invent the fitted bed sheet? — Gregor Collins

I tried to say beware the room is laid with traps and hung with hooks. — Janet Frame

Why won't you leave me alone?
Then I'd be alone too. — Leigh Bardugo

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. — John W. Gardner