Chinamans Chance Quotes & Sayings

There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality. — Gabrielle Roth

My breasts have a career. I'm just tagging along. — Pamela Anderson

You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ ... or you think he's a liar. And I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, 'He's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to get elected.' It's a horrible reason to like somebody. — Penn Jillette

If we don't see to it that our children turn out better than we did, what will become of the world? — Esther M. Friesner

In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in our clear articulation that the use of violence in response to speech is to be condemned. — Eliot Spitzer

Reality is separating fact from fiction. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I say we scrap the current system and replace it with a system wherein you add your name to the bottom of a list, and then you send some money to the person at the top of the list, and then you ... Oh, wait, that is our current system. — Dave Barry

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. — Bram Stoker

Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obscuration. Red flowers dot the land in the breeze's chase while the land colored up in red after the kiss. — Gayle Forman

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast. — Daniel Kahneman

Don't think about what you'll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it. — Paulo Coelho

Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it's not in their best interest to get pregnant overseas, but if it happens, it happens. — Tulsi Gabbard

Emotional intensity" doesn't convey the half of it, of course. It is the kind of coarse and disappointing translation that makes the dismembered bodies of samurai warriors spin in their graves. The word "zanshin" is larded down with a lot of other folderol that you have to be Nipponese to understand. And Hiro thinks, frankly, that most of it is pseudomystical crap, on the same level as his old high school football coach exhorting his men to play at 110 percent. The businessman makes another attack. This one is pretty straightforward: a quick shuffling approach and then a snapping cut in the direction of Hiro's ribcage. Hiro parries it. — Neal Stephenson

It may seem paradoxical, but you really do experience greater happiness when you choose to stop trying to control everything. And on a spiritual level, you evolve by learning the power of surrender and of love. — Susan Barbara Apollon