Chirped Crossword Quotes & Sayings

How you go over hurdle one should be how you go over hurdle ten. You need the strength to accelerate, and to maintain form. — Selim Nurudeen

I studied him as he studied me. Something came out of that dimension. It looked like my husband. Smelled like him. Felt like him. But the being standing in a pool of billowing black smoke was not the man I married. He was a feral version of him. A beast.
This truly was Rey'azikeen. — Darynda Jones

I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can still hear his wise words in my head when I am out on the training ground as a manager myself. — Joe Kinnear

Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present — Eric Butterworth

The human mind is a lucky little local, passing accident which was totally unforeseen, and condemned to disappear with this earth and to recommence perhaps here or elsewhere the same or different with fresh combinations of eternally new beginnings. We owe it to this little lapse of intelligence on His part that we are very uncomfortable in this world which was not made for us, which had not been prepared to receive us, to lodge and feed us or to satisfy reflecting beings, and we owe it to Him also that we have to struggle without ceasing against what are still called the designs of Providence, when we are really refined and civilized beings. — Guy De Maupassant

As is known worldwide, Japan has tried to catch up with the western countries since the beginning of this century by importing science from them. — Kenichi Fukui

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space. — James Joyce

There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is. — Donald Miller

Full of life and light; blissfully unaware of all the future had in store. — Kate Morton

When they speak to you from their fear
speak past their fear and directly to their love. Their Love will step forward eventually. — Glennon Doyle Melton

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain. — Arabella Weir

If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from. — Brigham Young

Motherlands are beloved, no doubt; sometimes they can also be exasperating and maddening.Yet I have also come to learn that for writers and poets for whom national borders and cultural barriers are there to be questioned, again and again, there is, in truth, only one motherland, perpetual and portable.
Storyland. — Elif Shafak

God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they called it, which punished those who observed it - for observing it. The more you tried to live up to it, the more you suffered; the more you cheated it, the bigger reward you got. Your honesty was like a tool left at the mercy of the next man's dishonesty. The honest ones paid, the dishonest collected. The honest lost, the dishonest won. How long could men stay good under this sort of a law of goodness? — Ayn Rand