Chinovations Quotes & Sayings

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood — George Bernard Shaw

it's amazing how you can speak right to my heart — Lori Nelson Spielman

Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!! — Red McCombs

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. List to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN. — Shirley Chisholm

Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter. — Jack Johnson

She told me about the cop. And the movie star, and the construction worker. You're not having a life Michael, you're fucking the Village People one at a time — Armistead Maupin

Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing. — Oswald Chambers

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness. — Benjamin Hooks

Netanyahu is partnering up with Boehner to kick Obama in the teeth and sabotage one of the president's top diplomatic priorities. He is essentially telling American Jews to get lost: 'I have no regard for the president you support and no regard for your own political needs and desires.' — David Corn

I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story. — Yann Martel

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years. — Albert Ellis

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

There was my mom and I had a wife for a long time and now there is my fianc-e. Eileen is in a long line of women who have given me orders. — Jeffrey Ashby

Did you ever think about the creation of the flame-thrower? Someone, somewhere, at some time must have been sitting on his porch, and said, thoughtfully, 'I want to set him on fire.' gesturing to his neighbor. His friend who sat beside him and happened to be handy with tools said, 'I can do that.' Thus, we have a flame thrower. — John Larson

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. — Nancy Astor