Chiforover Quotes & Sayings

What do you mean I didn't answer your question? I told you everything about me. I told you something personal." My jaw was slack and I was openly staring at him, more than a little shocked by his response.

"I asked about you. Your first and only response was to tell me about your disorder. You aren't your disorder. You told me about all the things you don't like and none of the things you do like. I just find it hard to believe someone like you is completely comprised of dislikes and not a single like. — Nash Summers

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played. — James Nasmyth

I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person. — Mireille Enos

The voluntary captive
The speechless the prisoner
Which I hide in my very depths ... — Anne Desclos

Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests. — Elizabeth Dole

Control your anger, be calm. — Lailah Gifty Akita

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything. — Anthony Jeselnik

A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man. — Simone De Beauvoir

Your inner knowledge of yourself is what matters — Sunday Adelaja

To be a critical reader means for me: (1) to affirm the enduring power of the Bible in my culture and in my own life and yet (2) to remain open enough to dare to ask any question and to risk any critical judgement. Nothing less than both of these points, together, can suffice for me. I was a reader of the Bible before I was a critic of it, but I found becoming a critic to be liberating and satisfying, and therefore I judge criticism to be a high calling of inestimable value. Yet, I recognize the prior claim of the text and the preeminence of reading over criticism; accordingly, I see and occasionally am apprehended by moments in which the text wields its indubitable power. The critic's ego says this could be a taste of the cherished post-critical naivete; the reader's proper humility before the text says that a reader should not judge such things. — Robert M. Fowler

If only I could be hidden in a corner, so as not to be tempted to worry about things that are not really my business. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

Don't be surprised if you all see me in different kinds of cinema. — Tena Desae

We can learn that at the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! Those, for instance, who stretch themselves in service- though laced with limiting diseases-are often the healthiest among us! The Spirit can drive the flesh beyond where the body first agrees to go! — Neal A. Maxwell

Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better — Kevin Henkes

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen. — Morris Chestnut