Chinoy Chinese Quotes & Sayings

God didn't play games. He wasn't a co-conspirator. God either hit you hard and fast, and that was that, or he sat back and watched things spool out, laughing all the way out. — Robert Ferrigno

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt ... — Jill Scott

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy. — David Schwimmer

I am one of those people who is never satisfied, ... When I was a little kid, I made a spaceship out of a refrigerator box, and I was pissed off that it wouldn't fly. Couldn't be happy with it. It was pretty cool, too. — Howie Day

My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and he loved her the way a bird-watcher's heart leaps when he hears the call of the roseate spoonbill, a fluffy pink wader, calling its lilting coo-coo from the mangroves. — Aimee Bender

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese. — John Scalzi

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements. — Walter Kirn

With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry. — Richard M. Nixon

Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air. — Soren Kierkegaard

For not from dust does mischief come,
nor from the soil does trouble sprout.
Human beings beget mischief
as sparks fly upward.

(Job 5:6-7) — Job

Her little fists pummeled at him, and he accepted the abuse. Until he realized she'd made an improper fist and was actually hurting herself. He wound an arm around her waist, spun her and slammed her into the hard line of his body to still her.
"Let me go!"
"In a minute." As she struggled, he pulled her thumb out from beneath her fingers and rearranged her fist. "Hit like this." Done, he released her. — Gena Showalter

Don't let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn't. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going. — Atul Gawande

Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins. — Roderick Murchison